Who Will Win the Operas

The First Annual Opera Awards announced. The awards sponsored by Opera magazine are the first exclusive Opera awards celebrating the artwork. Here are the nominees:

Accessibility Metropolitan Opera Streetwise Opera Teatro Sociale di Como Welsh National Opera CD (Complete Opera) Alessandro (Handel), c. George Petrou (Decca) Artaserse (Vinci) c. Diego Fasolis (Virgin) The Bartered Bride , c. Jiří Bělohlávek (HM) La finta giardiniera , c. René Jacobs (HM) Suor Angelica, c. Andris Nelsons (Orfeo) CD (Operatic Recital) Joyce DiDonato: Drama Queens (Virgin) Elīna Garanča:Romantique (DG) Christian Gerhaher:Romantic Arias (Sony) Mariusz Kwiecień: Slavic Heroes (HM) Chorus Bayreuth Festival Cape Town Opera Helikon Opera, Moscow Netherlands Opera Conductor Richard Farnes Ingo Metzmacher Nicola Luisotti Antonio Pappano Christian Thielemann Costume Designer Simon Higlett Christian Lacroix Olga Polikarpova Buki Shiff Director Claus Guth Stefan Herheim Richard Jones Dmitri Tcherniakov DVD Lohengrin, Bayreuth Festival, p. Hans Neuenfels, c. Andris Nelsons (Opus Arte) Le nozze di Figaro, Opéra National de Paris, p. Giorgio Strehler, c. Philippe Jordan (Bel Air Classiques) Tosca, Royal Opera, p. Jonathan Kent, c. Antonio Pappano (EMI) Il trittico, Royal Opera, p. Richard Jones, c. Antonio Pappano (Opus Arte) The Turn of the Screw, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, p. Jonathan Kent, c. Jakub Hruša (FRA Musica) Female Singer Sarah Connolly Joyce DiDonato Evelyn Herlitzius Catherine Naglestad Nina Stemme Béatrice Uria-Monzon Vote here for Readers' Award Festival Opera Aix-en-Provence Garsington Salzburg Santa Fe Wexford Lighting Designer Paule Constable Jean Kalman Duane Schuler Adam Silverman Jennifer Tipton

Male Singer Aleksandrs Antonenko Piotr Beczała Joseph Calleja Jonas Kaufmann Luca Pisaroni Bryn Terfel Vote here for Readers' Award Newcomer (conductor or director) Leo Hussain Oliver Mears Evan Rogister Daniele Rustioni Robert Sandoz Ryan Wigglesworth New Production Die Frau ohne Schatten, La Scala, p. Claus Guth, d. Christian Schmidt The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, Netherlands Opera, p. and d. Dmitri Tcherniakov Lulu, La Monnaie, p. Krzystof Warlikowski, d. Malgorzata Szczesniak Norma, Opera North, p. Christopher Alden, d. Charlie Edwards Peter Grimes, La Scala, p. Richard Jones, d. Stewart Laing La Sonnambula, Staatstheater Stuttgart, p. Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, d. Anna Viebrock Opera Company Oper Frankfurt Opéra National de Lyon Staatsoper Stuttgart Stanislavsky Music Theatre Moscow Theater an der Wien Opera Orchestra Maryinsky Theatre Metropolitan Opera Royal Opera House Vienna Staatsoper/Philharmonic Philanthropist/Sponsor Audi Investec Wealth and Investment Sir Peter Moores Rolex Rediscovered Work Artaserse (Vinci), Opéra National de Lorraine Les Aventures du Roi Pausole (Honegger), Opéra de Genève Belisario (Donizetti), Opera Rara David et Jonathas (M.-A. Charpentier), Les Arts Florissants Set Designer Paul Atkinson Christof Hetzer Simon Holdsworth Antony McDonald Dmitri Tcherniakov World Premiere Babylon (Widmann), Bayerische Staatsoper Mittwoch aus Licht(Stockhausen), Birmingham Opera Company Silent Night (Puts), Minnesota Opera Solaris (Glanert), Bregenz Festival Written on Skin(Benjamin), Aix-en-Provence Young Singer Sophie Bevan Andrei Bondarenko Allan Clayton Julia Lezhneva Duncan Rock Tamara Wilson