Austrian Music Theater Prize 2021

Place of the award: The moat of Schloss Lamberg

The Austrian Music Theater Prize 2021 is the ninth award of the Austrian Music Theater Prize . The award ceremony took place on August 2, 2021 in Steyr as part of the Upper Austrian provincial exhibition at Lamberg Castle. Most of the nominations, in a total of nine categories, went to the Vienna Volksoper , four of them for cabaret and three for the Offenbach operetta König Karotte . The Graz Opera and the Salzburg Festival each received five nominations .

The prize was awarded in 22 categories in 2021, including a special prize for courage and encouragement in the pandemic, as well as awards for the best international music theater production and for international cultural commitment. The Salzburg Festival was awarded in five categories, including the special prize for courage and encouragement in the pandemic .

jury

• Susanna Dal Monte ( Ö1 ) - Chair
• Joachim Leitner ( Tiroler Tageszeitung ) - Chair
• Dietmar Construction Law ( Burgenland People's Newspaper )
• Johannes Enzinger ( Kronen Zeitung )
• Peter Jarolin ( courier )
• Nikolaus Immanuel Koehler (Art Quarterly)
• Boris Priebe ( Felix Bloch heirs )
• Robert Quitta (L'Opera)
• Heinz Sichrovsky ( News , ORF )
• Michael Wruss ( Upper Austrian News )

Award winners and nominees

Best female lead

• Elsa Dreisig - Cosi fan tutte (Fiordigli) - Salzburg Festival
  • Katherine Lerner - II Trovatore (Azucena) - Landestheater Linz
  • Zeynep Buyraç - Impresario Dotcom (Dotcom) - Bregenz Festival
  • Bettina Mönch - Cabaret (Sally Bowles) - Volksoper Vienna

Best male lead

• Piotr Beczała - Moniuszko: Halka (Jontek) - Theater an der Wien
  • Marco Jentzsch - Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser) - City Theater Klagenfurt
  • Timo Riihonen - Don Carlo (Philipp II.) - Graz Opera
  • Ben Connor - Brigadoon (Tommy Albright) - Volksoper Vienna

Best Supporting Role

• Ruth Brauer-Kvam - Cabaret (Conférencier) - Volksoper Vienna
  • Ann Mandrella - The King and I (Lady Thiang) - Baden stage
  • Anna Maria Dur - Suor Angelica (II Trittico) (Princess) - Tiroler Landestheater

Best supporting role

• Robert Meyer - Cabaret (Herr Schultz) - Volksoper Vienna
  • Markus Butter - Königskinder (The minstrel) - Graz Opera
  • Johannes Maria Wimmer - Rigoletto (Sparafucile) - Tyrolean State Theater

Best overall opera production

• Cosi fan tutte - Salzburg Festival
  • Königskinder - Graz Opera House
  • Salome - Theater an der Wien

Best overall operetta production

• King carrot - Volksoper Vienna
  • The Rose of Stambul - Baden stage
  • The bat - Opera Graz

Best overall musical production

• Cabaret - Volksoper Vienna
  • The King and I - Baden Stage
  • Mary & Max - Landestheater Linz - Black Box

Best overall production of ballet

• The Tempest (Enrique Gasa Valga) - Tyrolean State Theater
  • Cinderella (Mei Hong Lin) - Landestheater Linz
  • Jewels (George Balanchine) - Vienna State Opera

Best musical direction

• Franz Welser-Möst - Elektra - Salzburg Festival
  • Joana Mallwitz - Cosi fan tutte - Salzburg Festival
  • Leslie Suganandarajah - Lohengrin - Salzburg State Theater

Best director

• Christof Loy - Cosi fan tutte - Salzburg Festival
  • Silvia Paoli - L'Empio punito - Innsbruck Festival of Early Music
  • Nikolaus Habjan - Salome - Theater an der Wien
  • Matthias Davids - King Carrot - Volksoper Vienna

Best equipment

• Nicole Pleuler - Impresario Dotcom - Bregenz Festival
  • Piero Vinciguerra - Lohengrin - Salzburg State Theater
  • Matthias Fischer-Dieskau and Susanne Hubrich - King Carrot - Volksoper Vienna

Best female offspring

• Laura Schneiderhan - Tonight: Lola Blau (Lola Blau) - Tiroler Landestheater
  • Mareike Jankowski - Don Carlo / Königskinder (Tebaldo / The stable maid) - Graz Opera
  • Sophie Mefan - My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle) - Salzburg State Theater
  • Tamuna Gochashvili - Eugene Onegin (Tatjana) - City Theater Klagenfurt

Best male offspring

• Rafael Helbig-Kostka - Britten: The Rape of Lucretia (narrator) - Opernstudio Landestheater Linz
  • Jonas Zeiler - The King and I (Louis Leonowens) - Baden stage
  • Robert Watson - Simon Boccanegra (Gabriele Adorno) - City Theater Klagenfurt
  • Jakob Semotan - Volksoper Vienna

Life's work

• Heinz Zednik

Special media award

• Jonas Kaufmann

Best orchestra / best choir (alternating)

• Wiener Philharmoniker

Special award for the best entertainment theater

• Peter Hofbauer for the Vienna Metropol

Best baroque festival

• Innsbruck Festival of Early Music

International cultural commitment

• Conductor PANG Ka-Pang and the Suzhou Chinese Orchestra

Special award for the best international music theater production

• Der Rosenkavalier at the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden - director: Andre Heller , musical director: Zubin Mehta

Special price for courage and encouragement in the pandemic

• Salzburg Festival

Off-Theater Prize

• Threepenny Opera of the Volkskantine Association (Innsbruck)

Web links

• Austrian Music Theater Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Austrian Music Theater Prize: Volksoper nominated nine times. In: Kurier.at . June 18, 2021, accessed June 18, 2021 . 
2. ↑ Volksoper top favorite at the Austrian Music Theater Prize. In: Salzburger Nachrichten / APA. June 18, 2021, accessed June 18, 2021 . 
3. ^ Austrian Music Theater Prize: Rain of trophies for the Salzburg Festival. In: Wiener Zeitung . August 2, 2021, accessed August 2, 2021 . 
4. ↑ "Courage and encouragement in the pandemic": Salzburg Festival won the music theater award. In: Small newspaper . August 2, 2021, accessed August 2, 2021 . 
5. ↑ The jury 2021. In: musiktheaterpreis.at. Retrieved June 18, 2021 . 
6. ↑ Heinz Zednik receives music theater award for his life's work. In: Salzburger Nachrichten / APA. July 9, 2021, accessed July 9, 2021 . 
7. ^ Austrian music theater award to Jonas Kaufmann. In: musik-heute.de. July 17, 2021, accessed July 17, 2021 . 
8. ↑ Star tenor Jonas Kaufmann is awarded the music theater prize. In: Small newspaper . July 17, 2021, accessed July 17, 2021 .