Oper! Awards 2025
The Oper! Awards more international than ever, with this year’s awards ceremony taking place in Brussels. OperaVision will stream the event live from La Monnaie De Munt selected ‘Best Opera Company’ in this year’s edition. Who will the 19 other winners be?
The Oper! Awards are presented annually during a gala to the best creatives of the international opera scene, working on or behind the stage. Introduced this year by Opera Europa Executive Director Karen Stone, the Awards are presented across 20 categories selected by a jury of music journalists.
AWARDS
Best female singer | Corinne Winters |
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Best male singer | Klaus Florian Vogt |
Best opera house | La Monnaie / De Munt |
Best conductor | Pablo Heras-Casado |
Best director | Tobias Kratzer |
Best orchestra | Orchestre Pygmalion |
Best choir | Chœur Pygmalion |
Best world premiere | Die Jüdin von Toledo – Detlev Glanert |
Best production | Der Idiot – Salzburger Festspielen |
Best stage designer | Christophe Coppens |
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Best costume designer | Christophe Coppens |
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Best solo album | Aigul – Aigul Akhmetshina |
Best opera recording | Le prophète – London Symphony Orchestra |
Best newcomer | Maayan Licht |
Best rediscovery | Amerika – Roman Haubenstock-Ramati – Opernhaus Zürich |
Best future project | Copenhagen Opera Festival |
Best festival | Opernfestspiele Heidenheim |
Honorary / lifetime achievement | Peter Konwitschny |
Best benefactor | François Duplat |
Biggest nuisance | Berliner Kulturpolitik |
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PROGRAMME
Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauß
'Overture'
La Cenerentola, Gioachino Rossini
'Non più mesta'
Serse, Georg Friedrich Händel
'Ombra mai fu'
Die Walküre, Richard Wagner
'Walkürenritt'
Siegfried, Richard Wagner
Short excerpts from acts 1 and 2
Rusalka, Antonín Dvořák
'Song to the moon'
Nabucco, Giuseppe Verdi
'Va, pensiero'
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Choir
Conductor: Alain Altinoglu
