"Les pêcheurs de perles", d. FC Bergman, Opera Vlaanderen
Opera Company of the Year 2019
2019
Winners
Chorus
Bolshoi OperaConductor
Marc AlbrechtDesigner
Rebecca RingstDirector
Katie MitchellEducation & Outreach
UmculoFemale Singer
Asmik GrigorianFestival
Janáček Brno FestivalLeadership
Sponsored by Good Governance Institute Waldemar DąbrowskiLifetime Achievement
Leontyne PriceMale Singer
Charles CastronovoNew Production
Sponsored by KT Wong Foundation Janáček: From the House of the Dead, d. Krzysztof Warlikowski (Royal Opera House)Newcomer
Maxim EmelyanychevOpera Company
Opera VlaanderenOpera Orchestra
Royal Opera HousePhilanthropy
Fondation BruReaders' Award
Sponsored by Opera Magazine Sonya YonchevaRecording (Complete Opera)
Rossini: Semiramide (Opera Rara)Recording (Solo Recital)
Stéphane Degout: Enfers (Harmonia Mundi)Rediscovered Work
Hasse: Artaserse (Pinchgut Opera)World Premiere
Sponsored by The Vineyard Kurtág: Fin de partie (Teatro alla Scala)Young Singer
Sponsored by Mazars Marina ViottiNominees
Chorus
Bolshoi OperaDutch National Opera
Opéra de Lyon
Royal Opera House
Semperoper Dresden
Teatro alla Scala
Conductor
Marc AlbrechtMyung-Whun Chung
Diego Fasolis
René Jacobs
Michele Mariotti
Mark Wigglesworth
Designer
Paolo FantinJohannes Leiacker
Rebecca Ringst
Katrin Lea Tag
Leslie Travers
Pierre-André Weitz
Director
Vasily BarkhatovCalixto Bieito
Rodula Gaitanou
Katie Mitchell
David Pountney
Krzysztof Warlikowski
Education & Outreach
English Touring OperaFestival d'Aix-en-Provence
Komische Oper
Opéra de Lyon
Pittsburgh Opera
Umculo
Female Singer
Anna Caterina AntonacciDaniela Barcellona
Sabine Devieilhe
Rosa Feola
Asmik Grigorian
Pretty Yende
Festival
Festival della Valle d’ItriaGarsington Opera
Janáček Brno Festival
Opera Holland Park
Prototype Festival
Ruhrtriennale
Male Singer
Charles CastronovoAlex Esposito
Brandon Jovanovich
John Osborn
Xavier Sabata
Georg Zeppenfeld
New Production
Sponsored by KT Wong Foundation Barber: Vanessa,, d. Keith Warner (Glyndebourne)Britten: Gloriana, d. David McVicar (Teatro Real)
Janáček: From the House of the Dead, d. Krzysztof Warlikowski (Royal Opera House)
Janáček: Jenůfa, d. Katie Mitchell (Dutch National Opera)
Verdi: La traviata, d. Deborah Warner (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, d. Dmitri Tcherniakov (Staatsoper Berlin)
Newcomer
Julia Burbach (director)Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor)
Ben Glassberg (conductor)
Thomas Guggeis (conductor)
Joana Mallwitz (conductor)
Shuang Zou (director)
Opera Company
Deutsche Oper am RheinGothenburg Opera
Houston Grand Opera
Opéra National de Paris
Opera Vlaanderen
Theater an der Wien
Opera Orchestra
LA OperamusicAeterna of Perm Opera
Novaya Opera
Royal Danish Opera
Royal Opera House
Staatsoper Berlin
Readers' Award
Sponsored by Opera Magazine Ildar AbdrazakovSarah Connolly
Michael Fabiano
Vittorio Grigolo
Thomas Hampson
Barbara Hannigan
Ana María Martínez
Sonya Yoncheva
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Recording (Complete Opera)
Dean: Hamlet (Opus Arte)Halévy: La Reine de Chypre (Palazzetto Bru Zane)
Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Soli Deo Gloria)
Rossini: Semiramide (Opera Rara)
Verdi: Giovanna d’Arco (Decca)
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Deutsche Grammophon)
Recording (Solo Recital)
Javier Camarena: Contrabandista (Decca)Max Emanuel Cencic: Porpora Arias (Decca)
Stéphane Degout: Enfers (Harmonia Mundi)
Elsa Dreisig: Miroir(s) (Erato)
Anita Rachvelishvili: Anita (Sony)
Stuart Skelton: Shining Knight (ABC Classics)
Rediscovered Work
Donizetti: L’Ange de Nisida (Opera Rara)Goldschmidt: Beatrice Cenci (Bregenz Festival)
Hasse: Artaserse (Pinchgut Opera)
Mascagni: Isabeau (Opera Holland Park) co-production with New York City Opera
Paderewski: Manru (Polish National Opera/Poznań Opera House)
Stanford: The Travelling Companion (New Sussex Opera)
Tate: The Lodger(Stadttheater Bremerhaven)
van Gilse: Thijl (Utrecht Student Orchestra)
World Premiere
Sponsored by The Vineyard Beecher: Sky on Swings (Opera Philadelphia)Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence (Royal Opera House)
Debussy/Van Parys: Usher (Staatsoper Berlin)
Kurtág: Fin de partie (Teatro alla Scala)
Langer: Rhondda Rips It Up! (Welsh National Opera)
Larcher: Das Jagdgewehr (Bregenz Festival)
Raskatov: GerMANIA (Opéra de Lyon)
Wainwright: Hadrian (Canadian Opera Company)
Young Singer
Sponsored by Mazars Julien BehrJodie Devos
Kangmin Justin Kim
Soraya Mafi
Siyabonga Maqungo
Marina Viotti
Amanda Woodbury