International Opera Awards 2023
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International Opera Awards 2024

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Bayerische Staatsoper is host of the 2024 International Opera Awards ceremony. Live from Prinzregententheater in Munich, OperaVision streams the complete ceremony featuring an exciting array of categories and performances by featured artists.

Founded in 2012 and known as opera’s Oscars, the International Opera Awards are the annual celebration of excellence in the international opera scene. The awards aim to recognise and reward success, create scholarships for emerging talent and raise the profile of opera. This year's jury, composed of opera professionals, is chaired by John Allison, editor of Opera with Opera News.

Awards

Conductor of the Year
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Designer of the Year
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Director of the Year
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Equal Opportunities & Impact
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Female Singer
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Festival
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Male Singer
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New Production
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Opera Company
Readers' Award
Recording 'Complete Opera'
Recording 'Solo Recital'
Rediscovered Work
Sustainability
World Premiere
Rising Star
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2024 Shortlist


The 2024 shortlist of organisations and artists in the running for an Award this year include several which are close to OperaVision. Here are those you might have seen on our platform.
 
In the running in the Best Festival category are Garsington Opera, a long-standing partner of OperaVision, and Smetana Opera Cycle Ostrava, two of whose operas were streamed on our platform for the first time this summer. 
 
Opera for Peace, whose masterclasses regularly showcase emerging talent from the sector, is nominated for the Equal Opportunities and Development prize.
 
In the Sustainability category, the shortlist includes the INSPIRE project, of which Opera Europa - the professional organisation behind OperaVision - is a partner, the Green Season of our regular contributor Opera North, which includes their production Masque of Might, and our partner Finnish National Opera.
 
New productions include Laurent Pelly's excellent production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Teatro Real Madrid, available on OperaVision.
 
Finally, we are pleased to find among the World Premieres two operas recently streamed on OperaVision: Peter Eötvös' Valuska at Hungarian State Opera and Cassandra by Bernard Foccroulle at La Monnaie / De Munt. These two performances are no longer available on demand, but you can watch some extracts below.
 
To discover the complete 2024 shortlist, visit operaawards.org
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
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Javier del Real / Teatro Real
Performance
Teatro Real

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

An ode to the joyful art of songwriting and the confrontation of tradition and innovation.

Ariadne auf Naxos
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Craig Fuller
Performance
Garsington Opera

Ariadne auf Naxos

Strauss’s opera-within-an-opera mixing low comedy and high tragedy.

Opera for Peace Masterclass
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Fabrizio Sansoni
Performance
Opera for Peace

Lawrence Brownlee & Brian Jagde Masterclass

Leading young voices of the world sing for Lawrence Brownlee and Brian Jagde.

The Kiss
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National Moravian-Silesian Theatre / Martin Popelář
Performance
National Moravian-Silesian Theatre

The Kiss

A twist of fate offers the young widower Lukáš and his former lover Vendulka a second chance at the happiness once denied them. However, their short tempers, stubborn natures and lack of mutual understanding leave the lovers vulnerable to a serious quarrel all on account of a mere kiss.

The Two Widows
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Martin Popelář
Performance
National Moravian-Silesian Theatre

The Two Widows

The calm and peaceful lives of two young widows - cousins Karolina and Anežka, who live together on a countryside estate - is suddenly stirred up by an unexpected visitor. It becomes obvious that the mysterious poacher, who suddenly appears in the estate’s forest, is not out hunting for a doe but rather pining for one of them.

Cassandra
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Karl Forster
Behind the scenes
La Monnaie / De Munt

Introduction to Cassandra

Composer Bernard Foccroulle introduces the different ‘worlds’ of his first opera and his musical choices for each.

Cassandra
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La Monnaie / De Munt
Extract
Cassandra
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Family Diner

Victoria (Susan Bickley) and Alexander (Gidon Saks) are celebrating Victoria’s 55th birthday with their daughters Sandra (Jessica Niles) and Naomi (Sarah Defrise), and with Blake (Paul Appleby). The atmosphere is buoyant, banter flows and different ways of predicting the future are discussed. But Sandra is not at all pleased that her scientific work is being compared to crystal-gazing. The conversation turns to her parents’ visit to her in Antarctica and the alarming state of that continent. Alexander waves aside Sandra’s doom-mongering about the ice caps and points to the opportunities such as mining, which he believes will come with the melting of the polar ice… Sandra and Blake are shocked by what they hear and make ready to leave the party. But then the birthday cake is brought in. Once Victoria has blown out the candles, Naomi can finally share the news of her pregnancy.

Valuska
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Nagy Attila
Behind the scenes
Hungarian State Opera

Behind the scenes of Valuska

Baritone Zsolt Haja, bass-baritone András Kiss, soprano Tünde Szabóki and conductor Kálmán Szennai take us backstage during the rehearsals of Péter Eötvös' opera Valuska at Hungarian State Opera.

Valuska
Extract
Valuska
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What happened in this town?

The mayoress invites a travelling circus to the town with fatal consequences: in order to build something new, she must destroy the existing system.

Masque of Might - Opera North, 2023, Harry Bicket, Sir David Pountney
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James Glossop
Extract
Masque of Might
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In guilty night (Saul and the Witch of Endor)

Masque of Might is the world premiere of a witty and satirical new opera which sees Sir David Pountney skilfully assemble Henry Purcell’s music to create a fantastical and thoroughly modern tale. In this extract ('In guilty night' from Purcell's 'Saul and the Witch of Endor'), Seer, Sceptic and Elena reveal to Diktat a vision in the form of a play, in which King Saul (tenor Xavier Hetherington) visits the fortune-telling Witch of Endor (soprano Anna Dennis) and learns that he will lose his kingdom.

Masque of Might
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James Glossop
Flashback
Opera North

Masque of Might

Sir David Pountney creates an eco-entertainment with the music of Purcell.