La cérémonie de remise des International Opera Awards aura lieu ce 28 novembre au Teatro Real. En attendant de connaître le nom des heureux gagnants, voici la liste des nommés dans les différentes catégories.
NEW PRODUCTION
Bregenz Festival: Madama Butterfly (d. Andreas Homoki); English National Opera: The Handmaid’s Tale (d. Annilese Miskimmon); Festival d’Aix-en-Provence: L’incoronazione di Poppea (d. Ted Huffman); Glyndebourne: La Voix humaine/Les Mamelles de Tirésias (d. Laurent Pelly); National Theatre Brno: The Greek Passion (d. Jiří Heřman) and Salzburg Festival: Il trittico (d. Christof Loy)
WORLD PREMIERE
Awakenings (Tobias Picker/Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Castor and Patience (Gregory Spears/Cincinnati Opera); Grete Minde (Eugen Engel/Theater Magdeburg); Madama Butterfly (Huang Ruo/Santa Fe Opera); The Time of our Singing (Kris Defoort/La Monnaie De Munt) and Violet (Tom Coult/Music Theatre Wales)
REDISCOVERED WORK
Dallapiccola: Ulisse (Oper Frankfurt); Davis: X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Odyssey Opera); Guiraud: Frédégonde (Theater Dortmund); Langgaard: Antikrist (Deutsche Oper Berlin); Schulhoff: Flammen (Prague National Theatre) and Smyth: The Wreckers (Glyndebourne)
CONDUCTOR
Edward Gardner, Eun Sun Kim, Oksana Lyniv, Joana Mallwitz, Carlo Rizzi and Daniele Rustioni
DIRECTOR
Rosetta Cucchi, Stefan Herheim, Tobias Kratzer, James Robinson, Simon Stone and Adele Thomas
DESIGNER
Lizzie Clachan, Paolo Fantin, Michael Levine, Tom Piper, Rainer Sellmaier and Leslie Travers
FEMALE SINGER
Svetlana Aksenova, Stéphanie D’Oustrac, Sabine Devieilhe, Federica Lombardi, Aušrinė Stundytė and Pretty Yende
MALE SINGER
Benjamin Bernheim, Allan Clayton, Stéphane Degout, Enea Scala, Russell Thomas and Georg Zeppenfeld
RISING TALENT
Anthony Almeida (director), Iván Ayón Rivas (tenor), Federica Guida (soprano), Barno Ismatullaeva (soprano), Iván López Reynoso (conductor), Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano), John Savournin (conductor), Yaritza Véliz (soprano), Nil Venditti (conductor) and Nardus Williams (soprano)
READERS’ AWARD
Asmik Grigorian, Saioa Hernandez, Jonas Kaufmann, Lisette Oropesa, Pene Pati, Golda Schultz, Andreas Schager and Michael Spyres
DIGITAL OPERA
The Copper Queen (Arizona Opera), Upload (Dutch National Opera), Gianni Schicchi (Grange Park Opera), Out of the Ordinary (National Opera of Ireland), IL TRIONFO. HER TEMPLE (Nationaltheater Mannheim) and Soldier Songs (Philadelphia Opera)
RECORDING (COMPLETE OPERA)
Barry: Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (Irish National Opera/Signum) CD; Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (Les Siècles/Harmonia Mundi) CD; Dvořák: Rusalka (Teatro Real/C Major) DVD; Offenbach: Le Voyage dans la lune (Choeur et Orchestre National Montpellier Occitane/Bru Zane) CD; Weber: Der Freischütz (Freiburger Barockorchester/Harmonia Mundi) CD and Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini (Deutsche Oper Berlin/Naxos) DVD
RECORDING (RECITAL)
Benjamin Bernheim: Boulevard des Italiens (DG); Marianne Crebassa: Séguedilles (Erato); Elsa Dreisig: Mozart x 3 (Erato); Sondra Radvanovsky: Donizetti – Three Queens (Pentatone); Michael Spyres: Baritenor (Erato) and Jonathan Tetelman: Arias (DG)
FESTIVAL
Donizetti Festival (Bergamo), Garsington Opera, George Enescu Festival, Oper Leipzig Wagner 22, Santa Fe Opera and Savonlinna Festival
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES & IMPACT
Foundation Studio (Cape Town Opera), Opera for Peace, Opera Philadelphia, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Pacific Opera and Tapestry
SUSTAINABILITY
Glyndebourne, Gothenburg Opera, Culture for the Future (Dresden), English National Opera, La Monnaie and Lyon Opera