The International Opera Awards has revealed its 2024 awards.

The awards ceremony is set to place at the Bayerische Staatsoper on Oct. 2, 2024.BBC Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny will again host the awards ceremony. There will also be performances featuring opera stars and singers from the Bayerische Staatsoper Young Artists programme.

Here is a rundown of all the categories:

CONDUCTOR
– Thomas Guggeis
– Emmanuelle Haïm
– Enrique Mazzola
– Carlo Rizzi
– Christophe Rousset
– Simone Young

DESIGNER
– Gideon Davey
-Rufus Didwiszus
-Anna-Sofia Kirsch
-Etienne Pluss
-Rebecca Ringst
-Paul Zoller

DIRECTOR
-Claus Guth
-Christof Loy
-Jetske Mijnssen
-Louisa Muller
-Marie-Eve Signeyrole
– Benedikt von Peter

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES & IMPACT
-Asian Opera Alliance
-NI Opera
-Opera Columbus: Crane Directing Fellowship
-Opera For Peace
-Streetwise Opera
-Teatro Regio di Parma: Manifesto Etico

FEMALE SINGER
-Elsa Dreisig
-Rosa Feola
-Aleksandra Kurzak
-Lisette Oropesa
-Anna Pirozzi
-Adela Zaharia

FESTIVAL
-Buxton International Festival
-Des Moines Metro Opera
-Garsington Opera
-Savonlinna Opera Festival
-Smetana Opera Cycle Ostrava
-Tiroler Festspiele Erl

MALE SINGER
-Benjamin Bernheim
-Cyrille Dubois
-Gerald Finley
-Pene Pati
-Jonathan Tetelman
-Klaus Florian Vogt

NEW PRODUCTION
-“Iphigénie en Aulide / en Tauride” (Festival d’Aix/Tcherniakov)
– Don Carlos (Grand Théâtre de Genève/Steier)
-“The Exterminating Angel” (Opéra national de Paris/Bieito)
-“Khovanshchina” (Staatsoper Berlin/Guth)
-“Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” (Teatro Real/Pelly)
-“Death in Venice” (Welsh National Opera/Fuchs)

OPERA COMPANY
-Komische Oper
-National Theatre Prague
-Opéra national du Rhin
-Opera Philadelphia
-Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège
-Wiener Staatsoper

READERS’ AWARD
-Xabier Anduaga
-Ekaterina Bakanova
-Piotr Beczała
-Sara Blanch
-Arturo Chacón Cruz
-Asmik Grigorian
-Ermonela Jaho
-Ludovic Tézier

RECORDING (COMPLETE OPERA)
-Donizetti: “L’esule di Roma” (Opera Rara)
-Langgaard: “Antikrist” (Naxos)
-Bertin: “Fausto” (Bru Zane)
-Lully: “Thésée” (Aparte)
-Adams: “Girls of the Golden West” (Nonesuch)
-Meyerbeer: “Le Prophète” (LSO Live)

RECORDING (SOLO RECITAL)
-Aigul Akhmetshina: “Aigul” (Decca)
-Golda Schultz: “Mozart, You Drive Me Crazy!” (Alpha)
-Marina Viotti: “Mezzo Mozart” (Aparte)
-Michael Spyres: “In the Shadows” (Erato)
-Reinoud van Mechelen: “Legros, Haute-Contre de Gluck” (Alpha)
-Saioa Hernandez: “Il verismo d’oro” (EuroArts)

REDISCOVERED WORK
-Granville Bantock: “The Seal-Woman” (Scots Opera Project)
-Antonio Salieri: “Kublai Khan” (MusikTheater an der Wien)
-Thea Musgrave: “Mary, Queen of Scots” (Oper Leipzig)
-Ethel Smyth: “Der Wald” (Oper Wuppertal)
-Roman Haubenstock-Ramati: “Amerika” (Opernhaus Zürich)
-Carolina Uccelli: “Anna di Resburgo” (Teatro Nuovo)
-Augusta Holmès: “La Montagne Noire” (Theater Dortmund)
-Camille Erlanger: “L’Aube rouge” (Wexford Festival Opera)

RISING STAR
– Justin Austin (baritone)
-Charlotte Corderoy (conductor)
-Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir (mezzo-soprano)
-Duke Kim (tenor)
-Katia Ledoux (mezzo-soprano)
-Anthony León (tenor)
-Marina Monzó (soprano)
-Yaroslav Shemet (conductor)
-William Guanbo Su (bass)
-Jasmin White (contralto)

SUSTAINABILITY
-ARVIVA: Arts vivants, arts durables
-Finnish National Opera
-INSPIRE Project (Erasmus+)
-Opera North: Green Season
-Santa Fe Opera; Wild Arts

WORLD PREMIERE
-Talbot: “The Diving Bell & the Butterfly” (The Dallas Opera)
-Eötvös: “Valuska” (Hungarian State Opera)
-Foccroulle: “Cassandra” (La Monnaie De Munt)
-Čekovská: “Here I am, Orlando” (National Theatre Brno)
-Bilodeau: “La Reine-garçon” (Opéra de Montréal)
-Orth: “10 Days in a Madhouse” (Opera Philadelphia)
-Spears: “The Righteous” (Santa Fe Opera)
-Glanert: “Die Jüdin von Toledo” (Semperoper Dresden)
-Carretero: “La Bella Susona” (Teatro de la Maestranza)
-Manchado: “La Regenta” (Teatro Real)