"Peter Pan", Welsh National Opera
Chorus of the Year 2015
(Image: Clive Barda)
2015
Winners
Accessibility
Den Norske OperaConductor
Semyon BychkovCD (Complete Opera)
Offenbach: Fantasio (Opera Rara)CD (Operatic Recital)
Anna Bonitatibus: Semiramide: La Signora Regale (deutsche harmonia mundi)Chorus
Welsh National OperaDesigner
Es DevlinDirector
Richard JonesDVD
Strauss: Elektra (Bel Air Classiques)Female Singer
Anja HarterosFestival
Bregenz FestivalLifetime Achievement
Speight JenkinsMale Singer
Christian GerhaherNewcomer (Conductor or Director)
Sponsored by Vineyard Lotte de BeerNew Production
Khovanskygate, Birmingham Opera CompanyOpera Company
Sponsored by Opera Now Komische Oper BerlinPhilanthropist
Ann Ziff (Bill and Ann Ziff Foundation)Readers' Award
Sponsored by Opera Magazine Jonas KaufmannAlexandra Kurzak
Rediscovered Work
Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira, Rossini Opera FestivalRichard Strauss Anniversary Production
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Royal OperaWorld Premiere
Sponsored by HIA International Boesmans: Au Monde, La MonnaieYoung Singer
Justina GringyteNominees
Accessibility
Bregenz FestivalDen Norske Opera
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Opera Australia
Opera North
Opera Philadelphia
Conductor
Semyon BychkovEdward Gardner
Lothar Koenigs
Gianandrea Noseda
Carlo Rizzi
Christian Thielemann
CD (Complete Opera)
Bartók: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (Signum)Handel: Tamerlano (Naïve)
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (Sony)
Offenbach: Fantasio (Opera Rara)
Rameau: Les Indes galantes (Musiques à la Chabotterie)
Strauss: Intermezzo (cpo)
CD (Operatic Recital)
Anna Bonitatibus: Semiramide: La Signora Regale (deutsche harmonia mundi)Cecilia Bartoli: St Petersburg (Decca)
Joyce DiDonato: Stella di Napoli (Warner Classics)
Franco Fagioli: Porpora—il maestro (Naïve)
Carolyn Sampson: Arias for Marie Fel (Hyperion)
Krassimira Stoyanova: Verdi Arias (Orfeo)
Chorus
English National OperaMetropolitan Opera
MusicAeterna (Perm Opera)
Opera Vlaanderen
Welsh National Opera
Wiener Staatsoper
Designer
Es DevlinKlaus Grunberg
Michael Levine
Erhard Rom
Jürgen Rose
Paul Steinberg
Director
David AldenCalixto Bieito
Robert Carsen
Richard Jones
Christof Loy
Graham Vick
DVD
Andriessen: La Commedia (Nonesuch)Berg: Lulu (Bel Air Classiques)
Britten: Death in Venice (Opus Arte)
Hahn: Ciboulette (FRA Musica)
Strauss: Elektra (Bel Air Classiques)
Wagner: Parsifal (Sony)
Female Singer
Joyce DiDonatoAnja Harteros
Liudmyla Monastyrska
Anna Netrebko
Anita Rachvelishvili
Sonya Yoncheva
Festival
BregenzCincinnati Opera
Garsington Opera
The Glimmerglass Festival
Operadagen Rotterdam
Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro
Male Singer
Lawrence BrownleeIestyn Davies
Christian Gerhaher
John Osborn
Michael Spyres
Ludovic Tézier
Newcomer (Conductor or Director)
Sponsored by Vineyard Christopher AllenMary Birnbaum
James Darrah
Lotte de Beer
Tim Murray
Raphaël Pichon
New Production
Alcina, Zurich OperaAriodante, Aix-en-Provence
Gurrelieder, Dutch National Opera
Benvenuto Cellini, English National Opera
Khovanskygate, Birmingham Opera Company
Prince Igor, Metropolitan Opera
Opera Company
Sponsored by Opera Now English National OperaKomische Oper Berlin
Novaya Opera
Opera Vlaanderen
Oper Graz
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
Readers' Award
Sponsored by Opera Magazine Piotr BeczałaFerruccio Furlanetto
Susan Graham
Jonas Kaufmann
Aleksandra Kurzak
Mariusz Kwiecien
Karita Mattila
Nina Stemme
Rediscovered Work
Barbieri: Los diamantes de la corona, Teatro de la ZarzuelaDonizetti: Les Martyrs, Opera Rara
Faccio: Amleto, Opera Southwest
Martinů: What Men Live By, Czech Philharmonic
Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira, Rossini Opera Festival
Saint-Saëns: Les Barbares, L’Opéra-Théâtre de St Etienne
Richard Strauss Anniversary Production
Ariadne auf Naxos, GlimmerglassDaphne, La Monnaie
Feuersnot, Dresden Festival
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Royal Opera
Friedenstag, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
Der Rosenkavalier, Glyndebourne
World Premiere
Sponsored by HIA International Anderson: Thebans, English National OperaBell: A Christmas Carol, Houston Grand Opera
Boesmans: Au Monde, La Monnaie
Gothe: Blanche & Marie, Norrlands Operan Umeå
Gruber: Tales from the Vienna Woods, Bregenz
Metcalf: Under Milk Wood, Taliesin Arts Centre (Swansea), Le Chien qui Chante (Montreal) and Companion Star (NY) in association with Welsh National Opera
Young Singer
Angel BlueDavid Butt Philip
Nicole Car
Aurelia Florian
Justina Gringyte
Jennifer Johnson Cano
Ross Ramgobin
Nicky Spence