International Opera Awards 2014

The 2014 International Opera Awards were launched the previous year by Harry Hyman, a British businessman and philanthropist, and John Allison , editor of Opera magazine .

Goals and ceremony

The second International Opera Awards ceremony took place on April 7, 2014 in a ceremonial setting at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane , London. The structure of the award ceremony is based on the tradition of the Academy Awards , with five or six nominations and one winner who is not announced until the ceremony.

The aim of the award ceremony is to promote outstanding achievements in the field of opera and to highlight them in a journalistic way. The award winners state that there are a number of music and culture prizes, but until the founding of the IOA, no international award specifically for the field of music theater.

Furthermore, outstanding talents and young artists should be brought into the limelight.

2014 award winners

category	Award winners	Other nominees
Singer	Stuart Skelton	Alessandro Corbelli Stéphane Degout Bryan Hymel Peter Mattei Luca Pisaroni Ludovic Tézier Michael Volle
singer	Diana Damrau	Christine Goerke Anja Harteros Christiane Karg Petra Lang Adrianne Pieczonka Krassimira Stoyanova
conductor	Kirill Petrenko	Teodor Currentzis Sir Mark Elder Andris Nelsons Gianandrea Noseda Simone Young
Choir	Bayreuth Festival	German Opera Berlin Metropolitan Opera New York City MusicAeterna , Perm State Opera Welsh National Opera , Cardiff Wexford Festival Opera
Director	Barrie Kosky	Calixto Bieito Tatjana Gürbaca Martin Kušej Dmitri Chernyakov Graham Vick
Furnishing	Paul Brown	Aleksandar Denic Robert Jones Brigitte Reiffenstuel Leslie Travers
Opera house	Zurich Opera	Bavarian State Opera , Munich Komische Oper Berlin Metropolitan Opera , New York City Royal Opera House Covent Garden , London Vlaamse Opera , Ghent
festival	Festival d'Aix-en-Provence	Bregenz Festival Glyndebourne Festival Opera Longborough Festival Opera Rossini Opera Festival , Pesaro Wexford Festival Opera
Accessibility	Teatro Sociale di Como	Badisches Staatstheater (Karlsruhe) Handa Opera (Sydney) Ruhrtriennale (Bochum, Bottrop, Dortmund, Essen, Gladbeck) Scottish Opera (Glasgow)
New staging	Bellini : Norma Salzburg Festival Orchestra La Scintilla , conductor: Giovanni Antonini Direction: Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier , stage: Christian Fenouillat	Rossini : Guillaume Tell , Rossini Opera Festival , Pesaro Berg : Lulu , Welsh National Opera , Cardiff Zimmermann : The soldiers , Zurich Opera / Komische Oper Berlin Verdi : Les vêpres siciliennes , Royal Opera House Covent Garden , London Berg : Wozzeck , English National Opera , London
Rediscovery	Foroni : Cristina, regina di Svezia Wexford Festival Opera Conductor: Andrew Greenwood Director: Stephen Medcalf , Stage: Jamie Vartan	Cavalli : Elena , Festival d'Aix-en-Provence Mysliveček : L'olimpiade , Dijon, Caen, Luxembourg, Prague Taneyev : Oresteia , Bard SummerScape , Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
premiere	André Tchaikowsky : The Merchant of Venice Bregenz Festival Wiener Symphoniker , conductor: Erik Nielsen Director: Keith Warner , stage: Ashley Martin-Davis	Blanchard : Champion , Opera Theater of Saint Louis Morrison : Oscar , Santa Fe Opera Szymański : Qudsja Zaher , Polish National Opera , Warsaw Glass : Traces of the Lost , Landestheater Linz
Anniversary Production Britten	Peter Grimes on the beach Open-air production of the Aldeburgh Festival Conductor: Steuart Bedford Director: Tim Albery , stage: Leslie Travers	A Midsummer Night's Dream ( Parque Lage , Rio de Janeiro) Gloriana ( Royal Opera House Covent Garden , London / Hamburg State Opera )
Anniversary Production Verdi	La battaglia di Legnano , I due Foscari , I Lombardi Verdi trilogy at the Hamburg State Opera Conductor: Simone Young Directed by David Alden , set by Charles Edwards	La forza del destino ( Bavarian State Opera , Munich) La traviata ( Teatro alla Scala , Milan) Les vêpres siciliennes ( Royal Opera House Covent Garden , London)
Anniversary Production Wagner	Parsifal Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp and Ghent Conductor: Eliahu Inbal Director: Tatjana Gürbaca , stage: Henrik Ahr	The Ring of the Nibelung ( Opera Australia , Mazda Opera in the Bowl, Melbourne) Parsifal ( Metropolitan Opera , New York) The Rheingold ( Grand Théâtre de Genève )
DVD	Charpentier : David et Jonathas Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (Bel Air Classiques) Les Arts Florissants , conductor: William Christie Director: Andreas Homoki , stage: Paul Zoller	Britten : The Rape of Lucretia ( English National Opera , Paul Daniel , David McVicar ; Opus Arte) Cherubini : Médée ( Les Talens Lyriques , Christophe Rousset , Krzysztof Warlikowski ; Bel Air) Prokofiev : The Player ( Mariinsky Theater St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev , Laurent Gentot ; Mariinsky) Debussy : Pelléas et Mélisande ( Orchester National de France , Bernard Haitink , Peter Stein ; Naïve ) Heggie : Moby-Dick ( San Francisco Opera , Patrick Summers , Leonard Foglia ; EuroArts ) Adès : The Tempest ( Metropolitan Opera , Thomas Adès , Robert Lepage ; Deutsche Grammophon )
CD (complete recording)	Verdi : Otello Chicago Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Riccardo Muti CSO Resound	Handel : Serse ( Early Opera Company , Christian Curnyn ; Chandos ) Wagner : The Flying Dutchman / Dietsch : Le vaisseau fantôme ( Les Musiciens du Louvre (Grenoble), Marc Minkowski ; Naïve ) Benjamin : Written on Skin / Duet for Piano and Orchestra ( Mahler Chamber Orchestra , George Benjamin ; Nimbus Records ) Donizetti : Belisario ( BBC Symphony Orchestra , Sir Mark Elder ; Opera Rara ) Britten : The Rape of Lucretia ( Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble , Oliver Knussen ; Virgin Classics ) Humperdinck : Königskinder ( Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra , Sebastian Weigle ; OehmsClassics )
CD (recital)	Ann Hallenberg Hidden Handel , Naïve	Andrzej Dobber : Arias (Dux) Bejun Mehta : Che puro ciel - The Rise of Classical Opera ( Harmonia Mundi ) Xavier Sabata : Bad Guys (Aparte)
Young singers	Jamie Barton	Emőke Baráth Helena Dix Joyce El-Khoury Joelle Harvey Duncan Rock Corinne Winters Pretty Yende
philanthropist	Edgar Foster Daniels	Alan and Jette Parker Club des Mécènes The Neubauer Family Foundation
Reader's Award given by Opera magazine	Joseph Calleja	Piotr Beczała Joyce DiDonato Renée Fleming Juan Diego Flórez Anna Netrebko Bryn Terfel
Lifetime achievement	Gerard Mortier

Web links

• International Opera Award - official website, archive for 2014 (with all nominees and all award winners)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Valerie Barber: International Opera Awards Winners Announced . (PDF) April 2014; Retrieved July 26, 2016.
2. ↑ The term was intentionally not translated into German, as the literal translation (accessibility) certainly does not meet the goal of the award.
3. ↑ Vincenzo Bellini: Norma . Salzburg Festival ; accessed on July 28, 2016.
4. ^ John Allison: Cristina, regina di Svezia, Wexford Festival Opera, review . The Telegraph (London), October 30, 2013; accessed on July 28, 2016.
5. ↑ “The Merchant of Venice” by André Tchaikowsky, Opera at the Festival House 2013 . ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bregenz Festival ; accessed on July 24, 2016. 
6. ↑ Andrew Clements, Grimes on the Beach - review . The Guardian (London), June 18, 2013; accessed on July 28, 2016.
7. ↑ Helmut Peters: Three new productions of early Verdi operas . Welt Online (Berlin), October 20, 2013; accessed on July 28, 2016.
8. ↑ # 05 Parsifal - Richard Wagner (1813-1883) . Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; accessed on July 28, 2016.
9. ↑ BAM 2013 Winter / Spring Season . (PDF) Brooklyn Academy of Music ; accessed on July 28, 2016.
10. ^ Britten: The Rape Of Lucretia DVD (English National Opera) . Royal Opera House (London); accessed on August 21, 2016.
11. ↑ Les Talens Lyriques, Choeurs de la Monnaie, Christophe Rousset - Cherubini - Medée (Bel Air Classique) . CeDe; accessed on August 21, 2016.
12. ^ Prokofiev - The Gambler . Mariinsky Theater (St. Petersburg); accessed on August 21, 2016.
13. ↑ Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande . Gramophones ; accessed on August 21, 2016.
14. ^ Jake Heggie : Moby-Dick DVD San ​​Francisco Opera / Great Performances (EuroArts) . official website; accessed on August 21, 2016.
15. ^ Thomas Adès - The Tempest . Deutsche Grammophon ; accessed on August 21, 2016.
16. ^ Blair Sanderson: Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Riccardo Muti - Giuseppe Verdi: Otello . AllMusic; Review; accessed on July 24, 2016.
17. ↑ Handel: Serse - Chandos: CHAN0797 (3) . Presto Classical; accessed on July 24, 2016.
18. ^ Marc Minkowski, orchester, Classique - Chef d'orchestre . ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Naïve; accessed on July 24, 2016.  
19. ↑ Written On Skin - Recording of the World Premiere, Festival d'Aix-en-provence, July 2012 . Mahler Chamber Orchestra ; accessed on August 21, 2016.
20. ↑ Belisario - Gaetano Donizetti . ( Memento of the original from August 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Opera Rara ; accessed on August 21, 2016. 
21. ^ Benjamin Britten The Rape of Lucretia (conductor: Oliver Knussen; Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble) Review . BBC (London); accessed on August 21, 2016.
22. ↑ Sebastian Weigle & Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra Engelbert Humperdinck: Königskinder . OehmsClassics ; accessed on August 21, 2016.