"Hamlet", Glyndebourne
World Premiere of the Year 2018
(Image: Richard Hubert Smith)
2018
Winners
Chorus
MusicAeternaConductor
Vladimir JurowskiDesigner
Paul SteinbergDirector
Mariusz TrelińskiEducation & Outreach
Opera Holland ParkFemale Singer
Sponsored by Royal Opera House Muscat Malin ByströmFestival
Festival Verdi ParmaLeadership in Opera
Sponsored by Good Governance Institute Bernd LoebeLifetime Achievement
Teresa BerganzaMale Singer
Piotr BeczałaNew Production
Sponsored by The Vineyard Britten: Billy Budd, d. Deborah Warner (Teatro Real)Newcomer
Barbora Horáková JolyOpera Company
Bayerische StaatsoperOpera Orchestra
Teatro alla ScalaPhilanthopy
Annette Campbell-WhiteReaders' Award
Sponsored by Opera Magazine Pretty YendeRecording (Complete Opera)
Berlioz: Les Troyens (Erato)Recording (Solo Recital)
Véronique Gens: Visions (Alpha)Rediscovered Work
Krenek: Der Diktator; Schwergewicht, oder Die Ehre der Nation; Das geheime Königreich (Oper Frankfurt)World Premiere
Sponsored by Charles Heidsieck Champagne Brett Dean: Hamlet (Glyndebourne)Young Singer
Sponsored by Mazars Wallis GiuntaNominees
Chorus
Bayerische StaatsoperKomische Oper
La Fenice
MusicAeterna
San Francisco Opera
Teatro Real
Conductor
Marc AlbrechtDaniele Gatti
Vladimir Jurowski
Fabio Luisi
Kazushi Ono
Simone Young
Designer
Charles EdwardsChristof Hetzer
Stuart Nunn
Dieter Richter
Paul Steinberg
Anna Viebrock
Director
David BöschDavid Hermann
Tobias Kratzer
David McVicar
Lydia Steier
Mariusz Treliński
Education & Outreach
Chicago Opera TheaterFlorida Grand Opera
Garsington Opera
La Monnaie
Opera Holland Park
Polish National Opera
Female Singer
Sponsored by Royal Opera House Muscat Malin ByströmCarmen Giannattasio
Barbara Hannigan
Hui He
Ermonela Jaho
Eva-Maria Westbroek
Festival
Bayreuth FestivalFestival Verdi Parma
Glyndebourne
Opera Forward
Opera Philadelphia O17
Santa Fe Opera
Male Singer
Piotr BeczałaGünther Groissböck
Peter Mattei
Eric Owens
Simone Piazzola
Michael Spyres
New Production
Sponsored by The Vineyard Berg: Wozzeck, d. William Kentridge (Salzburg Festival)Britten: Billy Budd, d. Deborah Warner (Teatro Real)
Britten: Death in Venice, d. Demis Volpi (Oper Stuttgart)
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, d. Claus Guth (Glyndebourne)
Verdi: Stiffelio, d. Graham Vick (Teatro Regio di Parma)
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, d. Barrie Kosky (Bayreuth Festival)
Newcomer
Gianmaria Aliverta (director)Jordan de Souza (conductor)
David Hertzberg (composer)
Barbora Horáková Joly (director)
Dane Lam (conductor)
Giedrė Šlekytė (conductor)
Opera Company
Bayerische StaatsoperLa Fenice
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Oper Graz
Opera North
Teatro Real
Opera Orchestra
Bayerisches StaatsorchesterBayreuth Festival
Deutsche Oper
Lyric Opera of Chicago
MusicAeterna
Teatro alla Scala
Readers' Award
Sponsored by Opera Magazine Cecilia BartoliJoyce DiDonato
Bryan Hymel
Ambrogio Maestri
Karita Mattila
René Pape
Luca Pisaroni
Pretty Yende
Recording (Complete Opera)
Andriessen: Theatre of the World (NonesuchBerlioz: Les Troyens (Erato)
Lully: Armide (Aparté)
Martinů: The Greek Passion (Oehms)
Méhul: Uthal (Palazzetto Bru Zane)
Wagner: Lohengrin (Deutsche Grammophon)
Recording (Solo Recital)
Sophie Bevan: Perfido! (Signum Classics)Joyce El-Khoury: Echo & Michael Spyres: Espoir (Opera Rara)
Juan Diego Flórez: Mozart Arias (Sony)
Véronique Gens: Visions (Alpha)
Jonas Kaufmann: L'Opéra (Sony)
Camilla Tilling: Gluck & Mozart Arias (BIS)
Rediscovered Work
Blomdahl: Aniara (Malmö Opera)Ginastera: Bomarzo (Teatro Real)
Hindemith: Die Harmonie der Welt (Landestheater Linz)
Isouard: Cendrillon (Manhattan School of Music)
Keiser: Octavia (Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik)
Krenek: Der Diktator; Schwergewicht, oder Die Ehre der Nation; Das geheime Königreich (Oper Frankfurt)
World Premiere
Sponsored by Charles Heidsieck Champagne Mason Bates: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Santa Fe Opera)Chaya Czernowin: Infinite Now (Opera Vlaanderen) co-production with Nationaltheater Mannheim
Brett Dean: Hamlet (Glyndebourne)
Avner Dorman: Wahnfried (Badisches Staatstheater)
Sebastian Fagerlund: Autumn Sonata (Finnish National Opera)
Julian Grant: The Nefarious, Immoral yet Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr Burke and Mr Hare (Boston Lyric Opera)
Arnulf Herrmann: Der Mieter (Oper Frankfurt)
Tang Jianping: 170 Days in Nanking (Jiangsu Centre for the Performing Arts)
Young Singer
Sponsored by Mazars Aigul AkhmetshinaLiparit Avetisyan
Gordon Bintner
Amartuvshin Enkhbat
Lauren Fagan
Wallis Giunta
Anush Hovhannisyan
Isabella Lee
Federica Lombardi
Natalya Romaniw