Inaugural Opera Awards finalists announced
18 February 2013, 16:38 | Updated: 18 September 2014, 15:37
Bryn Terfel, the Metropolitan Opera, Joseph Calleja and Joyce DiDonato are among the stars hoping to pick up an Opera Award in 2013.
Singers from across the world have been selected as finalists in this year's Opera Awards. Talents including Jonas Kaufmann, Joseph Calleja, Ninna Stemme and Joyce DiDonato will be among the stars competing for honours at the ceremony at London's Hilton Hotel on April 22.
The awards are the brainchild of Harry Hyman, and aim to bring opera's biggest stars to a wider audience, as well as supporting aspiring talent within the opera community. Winners of the awards for young singers will also be granted bursaries to further their careers.
Opera Magazine received 1,500 nominations from 41 countries which have been judged by a panel of experts. The 22 categories recognise the achievements not only of the performers, but all those involved in the world of opera, including the directors, lighting designers, philanthropists, and choruses.
You see the complete shortlist below, and vote here for the Readers' Award for male and female singers.
Opera Awards 2013 Shortlist
Accessibility
Metropolitan Opera
Streetwise Opera
Teatro Sociale di Como
Welsh National Opera
CD (Complete Opera)
Alessandro (Handel), c. George Petrou (Decca)
Artaserse (Vinci) c. Diego Fasolis (Virgin)
The Bartered Bride, c. Jiří Bělohlávek (HM)
La finta giardiniera, c. René Jacobs (HM)
Suor Angelica, c. Andris Nelsons (Orfeo)
CD (Operatic Recital)
Joyce DiDonato: Drama Queens (Virgin)
Elīna Garanča: Romantique (DG)
Christian Gerhaher: Romantic Arias (Sony)
Mariusz Kwiecień: Slavic Heroes (HM)
Chorus
Bayreuth Festival
Cape Town Opera
Helikon Opera, Moscow
Netherlands Opera
Conductor
Richard Farnes
Ingo Metzmacher
Nicola Luisotti
Antonio Pappano
Christian Thielemann
Costume Designer
Simon Higlett
Christian Lacroix
Olga Polikarpova
Buki Shiff
Director
Claus Guth
Stefan Herheim
Richard Jones
Dmitri Tcherniakov
DVD
Lohengrin, Bayreuth Festival, p. Hans Neuenfels, c. Andris Nelsons (Opus Arte)
Le nozze di Figaro, Opéra National de Paris, p. Giorgio Strehler, c. Philippe Jordan (Bel Air Classiques)
Tosca, Royal Opera, p. Jonathan Kent, c. Antonio Pappano (EMI)
Il trittico, Royal Opera, p. Richard Jones, c. Antonio Pappano (Opus Arte)
The Turn of the Screw, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, p. Jonathan Kent, c. Jakub Hruša (FRA Musica)
Female Singer
Sarah Connolly
Joyce DiDonato
Evelyn Herlitzius
Catherine Nagelstad
Nina Stemme
Béatrice Uria-Monzon
Festival Opera
Aix-en-Provence
Garsington
Salzburg
Santa Fe
Wexford
Lighting Designer
Paule Constable
Jean Kalman
Duane Schuler
Adam Silverman
Jennifer Tipton
Male Singer
Aleksandrs Antonenko
Piotr Beczała
Joseph Calleja
Jonas Kaufmann
Luca Pisaroni
Bryn Terfel
Newcomer (conductor or director)
Leo Hussain
Oliver Mears
Evan Rogister
Daniele Rustioni
Robert Sandoz
Ryan Wigglesworth
New Production
Die Frau ohne Schatten, La Scala, p. Claus Guth, d. Christian Schmidt
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, Netherlands Opera, p. and d. Dmitri Tcherniakov
Lulu, La Monnaie, p. Krzystof Warlikowski, d. Malgorzata Szczesniak
Norma, Opera North, p. Christopher Alden, d. Charlie Edwards
Peter Grimes, La Scala, p. Richard Jones, d. Stewart Laing
La Sonnambula, Staatstheater Stuttgart, p. Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, d. Anna Viebrock
Opera Company
Oper Frankfurt
Opéra National de Lyon
Staatsoper Stuttgart
Stanislavsky Music Theatre Moscow
Theater an der Wien
Opera Orchestra
Maryinsky Theatre
Metropolitan Opera
Royal Opera House
Vienna Staatsoper/Philharmonic
Philanthropist/Sponsor
Audi
Investec Wealth and Investment
Sir Peter Moores
Rolex
Rediscovered Work
Artaserse (Vinci), Opéra National de Lorraine
Les Aventures du Roi Pausole (Honegger), Opéra de Genève
Belisario (Donizetti), Opera Rara
David et Jonathas (M.-A. Charpentier), Les Arts Florissants
Set Designer
Paul Atkinson
Christof Hetzer
Simon Holdsworth
Antony McDonald
Dmitri Tcherniakov
World Premiere
Babylon (Widmann), Bayerische Staatsoper
Mittwoch aus Licht (Stockhausen), Birmingham Opera Company
Silent Night (Putz), Minnesota Opera
Solaris (Glanert), Bregenz Festival
Written on Skin (Benjamin), Aix-en-Provence
Young Singer
Sophie Bevan
Andrei Bondarenko
Allan Clayton
Julia Lezhneva
Duncan Rock
Tamara Wilson
