The nominees have been announced for the 2014 South Bank Sky Arts Awards. The awards ceremony is on 27 January 2014 and will be broadcast on Sky Arts on 30 January. The Classical Music category includes
the South Bank Centre's festival The Rest Is Noise,
Harrison Birtwistle's Songs from the Same Earth performed at The Britten Festival, Aldeburgh Festival and Thomas Ades' Totentanz, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall. The Dance category includes three very different works, Wayne McGregor's Atomos from Random Dance, Dracula from the Mark Bruce Company and English National Ballet's production of Petipa's Le Corsaire.
The Opera category has three very strong productions, George Benjamin's Written on Skin at the Royal Opera House, Britten's Paul Bunyan from Welsh National Youth Opera and Grimes on the Beach at the Aldeburgh Festival.
There are also individual citations, Times Breakthrough Award Nominees and these include opera director Alessandro Talevi
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
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