The opera awards have announced the 2019 nominees with multiple singers and companies competing for top prizes.

 

 

Meanwhile, the category for Male Singer of the Year is headlined by Charles Castronovo who competes with Alex Esposito, Brandon Jovanovich, John Osborn, Xavier Sabata, and Georg Zeppenfeld.

 

Ildar Abdrazakov will compete with Sarah Connolly, Michael Fabiano, Vittorio Grigolo, Thomas Hampson, Barbara Hannigan, Ana María Martínez, and Sonya Yoncheva for the Reader Award.

 

Vasily Barkhatov and Calixto Bieito are set to compete for the Director Award alongside Rodula Gaitanou, Katie Mitchell, David Pountney, and Krzysztof Warlikowski.

 

Among the contestants for Festival of the year are the Festival della Valle d’Itria, Garsington Opera, Janáček Brno Festival, Opera Holland Park, the Prototype Festival, and Ruhrtriennale.

 

In the running for Best Opera Company is Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Gothenburg Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opéra National de Paris, Opera Vlaanderen, and the Theater an der Wien. As for Best Opera Orchestra, the nominees are the LA Opera, MusicAeterna, Novaya Opera, Royal Danish Opera, the Royal Opera House, and the Staatsoper Berlin. 

 

The winner of the Best Recording will go to one of the following: “Hamlet (Opus Arte),” “La Reine de Chypre (Palazzetto Bru Zane),” “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Soli Deo Gloria),” “Semiramide (Opera Rara),” “Giovanna d’Arco (Decca), and “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Deutsche Grammophon).”

 

Here is the remainder of the nominees. 

 

 

Barber: “Vanessa,” d. Keith Warner (Glyndebourne)
Britten: “Gloriana,” d. David McVicar (Teatro Real)
Janáček: “From the House of the Dead,” d. Krzysztof Warlikowski (Royal Opera House)
Janáček: “Jenůfa,” d. Katie Mitchell (Dutch National Opera)
Verdi: “La traviata,” d. Deborah Warner (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées)
Wagner: “Tristan und Isolde,” d. Dmitri Tcherniakov (Staatsoper Berlin) 

 

 

English Touring Opera
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Komische Oper
Opéra de Lyon
Pittsburgh Opera
Umculo Cape Festival

Newcomer

Julia Burbach (director)
Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor)
Ben Glassberg (conductor)
Thomas Guggeis (conductor)
Joana Mallwitz (conductor)
Zou Shuang (director)

Recording (Solo Recital)

Javier Camarena: “Contrabandista (Decca)”
Max Emanuel Cencic: “Porpora Arias (Decca)”
Stéphane Degout: “Enfers (Harmonia Mundi)”
Elsa Dreisig: “Miroir(s) (Erato)”
Anita Rachvelishvili: “Anita (Sony)”
Stuart Skelton: “Shining Knight (ABC Classics)”

Rediscovered Work

Donizetti: “L’Ange de Nisida (Opera Rara)”
Goldschmidt: “Beatrice Cenci (Bregenz Festival)”
Hasse: “Artaserse (Pinchgut Opera)”
Mascagni: “Isabeau (Opera Holland Park)”
Paderewski: “Manru (Polish National Opera)”
Stanford: “The Travelling Companion (New Sussex Opera)”
Tate: “The Lodger (Stadttheater Bremerhaven)”
van Gilse: “Thijl (Utrecht Student Orchestra)”

World Premiere

Beecher: “Sky on Swings (Opera Philadelphia)”
Benjamin: “Lessons in Love and Violence (Royal Opera House)”
Debussy/Van Parys: “Usher (Staatsoper Berlin)”
Kurtág: “Fin de partie (Teatro alla Scala)”
Langer: “Rhondda Rips It Up! (Welsh National Opera)”
Larcher: “Das Jagdgewehr (Bregenz Festival)”
Raskatov: “GerMANIA (Opéra de Lyon)”
Wainwright: “Hadrian (Canadian Opera Company)”

Young Singer

Julien Behr
Jodie Devos
Kangmin Justin Kim
Soraya Mafi
Siyabonga Maqungo
Amanda Woodbury
Marina Viotti