The winners of the 2023 Opera Awards were announced on Thursday at the Polish National Opera. The Bayerische Staatsoper was awarded the top prize of Opera Company of the Year while the Conductor of the Year went to Antonio Pappano. The winner of Best Female Singer of the Year was Aigul Akhmetshina and Best Male Singer of the Year went {…}
The Opera Awards Foundation has announced the 2022 bursary recipients. The awards, which aim to help young artists with their career development will be given to 19 recipients this year. Artists will receive help with their living and travel cost, course fees, promotional material, and professional coaching sessions. This year’s winners include soprano Sarah Ampil, writer Laura Attridge, mezzo-soprano Megan {…}
The International Opera Awards have announced the nominees for its 2020 Awards. The annual event, which celebrates achievement in opera around the globe over the 2019 calendar year, recognizes excellence in a wide range of categories that cover performance, design and direction, as well as education and outreach. This year, two opera companies topped the 2020 nominees with three a {…}
The Opera Awards Foundation has announced the 2019 bursary recipients. In sum, there are 14 winners, including mezzo-soprano Anna Starushkevyich, soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou, soprano Caroline Modiba, soprano Claire Lees, soprano Ella Taylor, baritone Jack Holton, soprano Jacqueline Piccolino, counter-tenor Kieron Connor Valentine, mezzo-soprano Kseniia Nikolaieva, baritone Luvuyo Mbundu, soprano Sarah-Jane Lewis, conductor Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue, director Xolane Marman, and the Waterperry {…}
The KT Wong Foundation will sponsor the New Production of the Year award at the 2019 International Opera Awards. This year’s nominees include “Vanessa” from Glyndebourne, “Gloriana” from the Teatro Real de Madrid, “From the House of the Dead” from the Royal Opera House, “La Traviata” from the Théâtre des Champs-Elyseés,” and “Tristan und Isolde” from the Staatsoper Berlin. The {…}
Legendary tenor Plácido Domingo will receive the first-ever Honorary Fellowship of the Opera Awards Foundation. The tenor will receive the first annual award at a fundraising evening on Jan. 28, 2019 at the Royal Society of Arts, London. The evening will be comprised of an illustrated talk, “The Domingo Phenomenon” by his biographer Helena Matheopoulos, who will then invite Domingo {…}
The Bayerische Staatsoper won the award for Opera Company of the Year taking the top prize at The International Opera Awards. Piotr Beczala won the Male Singer of the Year and sent a video from New York, where he is performing at the Metropolitan Opera. Malin Byström won the Female Singer of the Year and thanked her parents in a {…}
On April 9, 2018, Teresa Berganza will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Opera Awards 2018. The organization announced that Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza will receive the award for her legendary operatic career. Berganza, who studied music at the Madrid Conservatory, where she was awarded the first prize for singing in 1954, made her concert debut in {…}
The International Opera Awards were presented on May 7, 2017, at the London Coliseum, celebrating the best in Opera. The year’s big winner went to Opéra de Lyon as it won Company of the Year beating out Houston Grand Opera, Oper Stuttgart, Opera Vlaanderen, Royal Opera House, and the Teatro alla Scala. Anna Netrebko, who was headlining the Metropolitan Opera’s 50th Anniversary gala, {…}
American tenor Bryan Hymel will be performing at the Opera Awards this year. The Opera Awards’ official Twitter account made the announcement earlier on Thursday, including a video of the tenor performing at the Rosenblatt Recital. The Opera Awards is an annual awards ceremony celebrating the best of international opera. The ceremony will take place on Sunday, May 7 at {…}
The International Opera Awards have announced its annual nominees with many of the greatest stars, companies and conductors getting nominated for the prestigious prize. This year Anna Netrebko and Anita Rachvelishvili will compete for the Best Female Singer award with Maria Bengtsson, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Christiane Karg and Daniela Sindram. Netrebko’s nominations marks her third time she is up for this award. She was previously {…}