Austrian Music Theater Award 2017

The Austrian Music Theater Prize 2017 was the fifth award of the Austrian Music Theater Prize . The award ceremony took place on June 25, 2017 as part of a matinee at the Vienna Volksoper and was moderated by Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz . On May 10, 2017 the winners for the life's work, the ORF III media award, the award for the best festival and the best choir were announced. In 2017 the Austrian Federal Chancellery took part for the first time and organized an off-theater award. The special prize for the best choir or the best orchestra is to be awarded alternately to one of the two ensembles. The prize was awarded in 17 categories in 2017. The Greek Passion at the Graz Opera received most of the awards ; the production was awarded in the categories of best overall production, best director (Lorenzo Fioroni) and best supporting actor (Wilfried Zelinka as Grigoris).

Award winners and nominees

Best female lead

• Hailey Clark - Brokeback Mountain (Alma) - Salzburg State Theater
  • Sophia Brommer - Luisa Miller (Luisa) - Graz Opera
  • Golda Schultz - Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi) - City Theater Klagenfurt
  • Melba Ramos - Prince Igor (Jaroslawna) - Volksoper Vienna

Best male lead

• Robert Meyer - The Man from La Mancha (Don Quixote) - Volksoper Vienna
  • Michael Wagner - McTeague - Greed for Gold (Marcus Schouler) - Landestheater Linz
  • Rolf Romei - The Greek Passion (Manolios) - Graz Opera

Best Supporting Role

• Elsa Benoit - Carmen (Micaëla) - City Theater Klagenfurt
  • Susanne Langbein - Fidelio (Marzelline) - Tyrolean State Theater
  • Cathrin Lange - The Abduction from the Seraglio (Blonde) - Graz Opera

Best supporting role

• Wilfried Zelinka - The Greek Passion (Grigoris) - Graz Opera
  • Matthäus Schmidlechner - Hansel and Gretel (witch) - Landestheater Linz
  • Stefan Cerny - Kismet (Wesir) - Volksoper Vienna
  • Franz Gürtelschmied - The Land of Smiles (Gustl) - Baden stage

Best overall production

• The Greek Passion - Graz Opera
  • La Traviata - State Theater Linz
  • The man from La Mancha - Volksoper Vienna
  • Brokeback Mountain - Salzburg State Theater

Best musical direction

• Alfred Eschwé - Prince Igor - Volksoper Vienna
  • Dirk Kaftan - The distant sound - Graz Opera
  • Francesco Angelico - The Makropulos Affair - Tyrolean State Theater

Best director

• Lorenzo Fioroni - The Greek Passion - Graz Opera
  • Immo Karaman - A Midsummer Night's Dream - City Theater Klagenfurt
  • Carlus Padrissa - Terra Nova or The White Life - Landestheater Linz

Best equipment

• Heinz Hauser (stage) and Gera Graf (costumes) - The Makropulos Affair - Tiroler Landestheater
  • Martina Segna (stage design), Anna Sofie Tuma (costume design) and Adriana Westerbarkey (costume realization) - Der ferne Klang - Oper Graz
  • Mathias Fischer-Dieskau - McTeague - Greed for Gold - Landestheater Linz

Best ballet production

• Mei Hong Lin - Swan Lake - Landestheater Linz
  • The Snow Queen - Volksoper Vienna
  • Enrique Gasa Valga - Peer Gynt - Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck

Best young artist

• Anna Brull - The Barber of Seville (Rosina) - Graz Opera
  • Elsa Benoit - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania) - City Theater Klagenfurt
  • Fenja Lukas - Orfeo ed Euridice (Euridice) - Landestheater Linz

Best young artist

• Michael Hauenstein - Turandot (Timur) - Tyrolean State Theater
  • Maximilian Krummen - Il mondo della luna (Ecclitico) - Salzburg State Theater
  • Peter Kellner - The Barber of Seville (Basilio) - Graz Opera

Life's work

• Grace Bumbry

ORF III media award

• René Pape

Best festival

• Tyrolean Festival Erl

Best orchestra / best choir (alternating)

• Vienna Volksoper choir

Crown musical award

• Drew Sarich - Evita - Ronacher
  • Ana Milva Gomes - Mozart! - Raimund Theater
  • Pia Douwes - Next to Normal - Hall E ( MuseumsQuartier )
  • Andreas Bieber - Axel at Heaven's Door - Volksoper Vienna

Off-theater award

• Siren Opera Theater for Khodorkovsky

Web links

• Austrian Music Theater Prize
• Austrian Music Theater Prize: The 2017 nominations ( Memento from June 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Salzburger Nachrichten: Music Theater Prize: For the first time, category for off-music theater . Article dated May 10, 2017, accessed June 1, 2017.
2. ↑ Austrian Music Theater Prize: The Categories 2017 ( Memento from June 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ orf.at: Graz opera production has received several awards . Article dated June 25, 2017, accessed June 25, 2017.