International Opera Awards Finalists Revealed; Winners To Be Announced, April 26

On Wednesday 14 January 2015, at HUSH in Mayfair, the finalists of the International Opera Awards 2015 were announced. These were selected by the jury chaired by John Allison, editor of Opera magazine and classical music critic with The Daily Telegraph.

John Allison was joined on the jury by Peter Alward, Managing Director and Intendant of the Salzburg Easter Festival,Per Boye Hansen, Artistic Director of the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Kathryn Harries, Director of the National Opera Studio, Evans Mirageas, Artistic Director of Cincinnati Opera and the Vice-President for Artistic Planning for The Atlanta Symphony and Nicholas Payne, Director of Opera Europa.

Also on the jury were Hugh Canning, chief music critic for the The Sunday Times and regular Opera contributor, George Loomis who covers opera and classical music for the International Herald Tribune, MusicalAmerica.com, The Financial Times and Opera, Belgian critic Erna Metdepenninghen, formerly of De Standaard, and a correspondent of Opera, andHugo Shirley, Deputy Editor of Opera, music critic for Gramophone and The Daily Telegraph.

The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Sunday 26 April at The Savoy Theatre in London. Tickets from £30 are available: http://www.operaawards.org

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Nominations

Accessibility

Bregenz Festival

Den Norske Opera

Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

Opera Australia

Opera North

Opera Philadelphia

Conductor

Semyon Bychkov

Edward 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 Opera

Metropolitan Opera

MusicAeterna (Perm Opera)

Opera Vlaanderen

Welsh National Opera

Wiener Staatsoper

Designer

Es Devlin

Klaus Grunberg

Michael Levine

Erhard Rom

Jürgen Rose

Paul Steinberg

Director

David Alden

Calixto 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 DiDonato

Anja Harteros

Liudmyla Monastyrska

Anna Netrebko

Anita Rachvelishvili

Sonya Yoncheva

Festival

Bregenz

Cincinnati Opera

Garsington

Glimmerglass

Operadagen Rotterdam

Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro

Male Singer

Lawrence Brownlee

Iestyn Davies

Christian Gerhaher

John Osborn

Michael Spyres

Ludovic Tézier

Newcomer

Christopher Allen

Mary Birnbaum

James Darrah

Lotte de Beer

Tim Murray

Raphaël Pichon

New Production

Alcina, Zurich Opera

Ariodante, Aix-en-Provence

Gurrelieder, DNO

Benvenuto Cellini, English National Opera

Khovanskygate, Birmingham Opera Company

Prince Igor, Metropolitan Opera

Opera Company

English National Opera

Komische Oper Berlin

Novaya Opera

Opera Vlaanderen

Oper Graz

Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie

Readers' Award

Piotr Becza?a

Ferruccio Furlanetto

Susan Graham

Jonas Kaufmann

Aleksandra Kurzak

Mariusz Kwiecien

Karita Mattila

Nina Stemme

Rediscovered Work

Barbieri: Los diamantes de la corona, Teatro de la Zarzuela

Donizetti: Les Martyrs, Opera Rara

Faccio: Amleto, Opera Southwest

Martin?: 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 (In memory of Michael Kennedy)

Ariadne auf Naxos, Glimmerglass

Daphne, La Monnaie

Feuersnot, Dresden Music Festival

Die Frau ohne Schatten, Royal Opera

Friedenstag, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern

Der Rosenkavalier, Glyndebourne

World Premiere

Anderson: Thebans, English National Opera

Bell: 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 Blue

David Butt Philip

Nicole Car

Aurelia Fabian

Justina Gringyte

Jennifer Johnson Cano

Ross Ramgobin

Nicky Spence

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