Stuart Skelton photo credit Jim Winslet |
Duncan Rock photo credit Jim Winslet |
The winner of the Male Singer category was Stuart Skelton (who recently reprised his terrific Peter Grimes at ENO) and the Female Singer was Diana Damrau (a singer whom we don't hear enough of in London). The Young Singer category was won by Jamie Barton (who also won the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World), and the Readers Awards went to tenor Joseph Calleja (recently singing the title role in Gounod's Faust at Covent Garden).
The award for new operatic production went to the Salzburg Festival's production of Bellini's Norma which used a new edition of the opera, period instruments and Cecilia Bartoli in the title role. There were also awards for the productions commemorating the three major anniversaries in 2014, with Aldeburgh Festival's wonderful Peter Grimes on the Beach winning the Britten category, Hamburg Staatsoper's trilogy of early Verdi operas (La battalia di Legnano, I due Foscari and I Lombardi) winning the Verdi category and Vlaamse Opera's Parsifal in the Wagner category. The Wexford Festival's production of Cristina, regina di Svezia by Jacopo Foroni won in the Rediscovered Work category. Andre Tchaikovsky's The Merchant of Venice won the award for the World Premiere opera, in David Pountney's production at the Bregenz Festival.
Other personal awards went to conductor Kirill Petrenko (musical director of the Bavarian State Opera), designer Paul Brown and director Barrie Kosky (Intendant of the Komische Oper, Berlin). Kosky's double bill of Dido and Aeneas and Duke Bluebeard's Castle was presented at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival by Opera Frankfurt.
Company awards including Zurich Opera, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the chorus of the Bayreuth Festival and the Teatro Sociale di Como for Accessilibility.
You can see edited highlights of the awards ceremony here.
The full list of awards:-
Accessibility - Teatro Sociale di Como
Anniversary Production (Britten) - Peter Grimes on the beach (Aldeburgh Festival)
Anniversary Production (Verdi) - Verdi trilogy – La battaglia di Legnano, I due Foscari, I Lombardi (Hamburg Staatsoper)
Anniversary Production (Wagner) - Parsifal (Vlaamse Opera)
CD (Complete Opera) - Otello (Chicago Symphony Orchestra Resound)
CD (Operatic Recital) - Ann Hallenberg – Hidden Handel (Naïve)
Chorus - Bayreuther Festspiele
Conductor - Kirill Petrenko
Designer - Paul Brown
Director - Barrie Kosky
DVD - David et Jonathas (Bel Air Classiques)
Female Singer - Diana Damrau
Festival - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
Lifetime Achievement - Gerard Mortier
Male Singer - Stuart Skelton
New Production - Norma (Salzburger Festivalpiele)
Opera Company - Oper Zurich
Philanthropist/Sponsor - Edgar Foster Daniels
Readers’ Award - Joseph Calleja
Rediscovered Work - Cristina, regina di Svezia (Wexford Festival)
World Premiere - The Merchant of Venice (Bregenzer Festspiele)
Young Singer - Jamie Barton
Elsewhere on this blog:
- WIN: Rosalind Plowright's new CD La belle Dame sans Merci
- Pure Magic: L'Ormindo at the Globe
- A Soldier's Tale at Barnes Music Festival
- Rhinegold Live: Julian & Jiaxin Lloyd Webber
- Style and imagination: Antonio Poli at Rosenblatt Recitals
- Pure Handel: European Union Baroque Orchestra CD review
- Vibrantly old-fashioned: Borodin's Prince Igor
- Love Journeys: Jacques Cohen and the Isis Ensemble
- Songs of Love and War: The London Quartet - Cantabile
- Spanish visitors: Zenobia Consort
- Anonymity: The Portrait Choir
- Second look: Die Frau ohne Schatten
- Remembering Gerd Albrecht with a look at his recordings of Dvorak & Spontini
- Breathtaking: Esa-Pekka Salonen violin concerto
- Home
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