British composer Thomas Adès has been honoured by the International Opera Awards 2017.
The composer collected the World Premiere gong for his opera The Exterminating Angel at the Salzburg Festival.
Renata Scotto received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Lawrence Brownlee and Anna Netrebko took the Male and Female Singer Awards respectively.
The Opera Magazine Readers’ Award went to Juan Diego Flórez after nearly 7,000 votes were cast online, while all the other winners were selected by an international jury chaired by John Allison, editor of Opera magazine and classical music critic with the Daily Telegraph.
The 2017 International Opera Awards took place at the London Coliseum on 7 May.
The evening included performances by Female Singer of the Year finalists Anita Rachvelishvili and Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Young Singer of the Year Louise Alder, as well as Bryan Hymel, Lauren Fagan and 2014 Opera Awards Foundation Bursary recipient Rhian Lois.
In August, Adès will conduct the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at The Proms in the London premiere of Francisco Coll’s Mural alongside his own Polaris and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
Full list of winners -
Chorus – Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Conductor – Philippe Jordan
Designer – Klaus Grünberg
Director – Christof Loy
Education & Outreach – Natalya Sats Children’s Opera Theatre, Moscow
Female Singer – Anna Netrebko
Festival – Wexford Festival Opera
Leadership in Opera – Bernard Foccroulle
Lifetime Achievement – Renata Scotto
Male Singer – Lawrence Brownlee
New Production – Saariaho: L’amour De Loin, D. Robert Lepage (Metropolitan Opera)
Newcomer – Lorenzo Viotti (Conductor)
Opera Company – Opéra De Lyon
Opera Magazine Readers’ Award – Juan Diego Flórez
Philantropist – Fedora
Recording (Complete Opera) – Pique Dame (Br Klassik)
Recording (Solo Recital) – Pretty Yende: A Journey (Sony)
Rediscovered Work – ?ele?ski: Goplana (Polish National Opera)
Special Award in Memoriam – Alberto Zedda
World Premiere – Thomas Adès: The Exterminating Angel (Salzburg Festival)
Young Singer – Louise Alder
The composer collected the World Premiere gong for his opera The Exterminating Angel at the Salzburg Festival.
Renata Scotto received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Lawrence Brownlee and Anna Netrebko took the Male and Female Singer Awards respectively.
The Opera Magazine Readers’ Award went to Juan Diego Flórez after nearly 7,000 votes were cast online, while all the other winners were selected by an international jury chaired by John Allison, editor of Opera magazine and classical music critic with the Daily Telegraph.
The 2017 International Opera Awards took place at the London Coliseum on 7 May.
The evening included performances by Female Singer of the Year finalists Anita Rachvelishvili and Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Young Singer of the Year Louise Alder, as well as Bryan Hymel, Lauren Fagan and 2014 Opera Awards Foundation Bursary recipient Rhian Lois.
In August, Adès will conduct the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at The Proms in the London premiere of Francisco Coll’s Mural alongside his own Polaris and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
Full list of winners -
Chorus – Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Conductor – Philippe Jordan
Designer – Klaus Grünberg
Director – Christof Loy
Education & Outreach – Natalya Sats Children’s Opera Theatre, Moscow
Female Singer – Anna Netrebko
Festival – Wexford Festival Opera
Leadership in Opera – Bernard Foccroulle
Lifetime Achievement – Renata Scotto
Male Singer – Lawrence Brownlee
New Production – Saariaho: L’amour De Loin, D. Robert Lepage (Metropolitan Opera)
Newcomer – Lorenzo Viotti (Conductor)
Opera Company – Opéra De Lyon
Opera Magazine Readers’ Award – Juan Diego Flórez
Philantropist – Fedora
Recording (Complete Opera) – Pique Dame (Br Klassik)
Recording (Solo Recital) – Pretty Yende: A Journey (Sony)
Rediscovered Work – ?ele?ski: Goplana (Polish National Opera)
Special Award in Memoriam – Alberto Zedda
World Premiere – Thomas Adès: The Exterminating Angel (Salzburg Festival)
Young Singer – Louise Alder
