The Burkhard C. Kosminski production that showed SS guards killing Jewish prisoners in a concentration camp has been awarded the coveted Opernwelt prize for Worst of the Year.

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Other winners in the magazine’s annual round-up are:

Opera House of the year: Berlin Komische Oper

Performance of the year: Parsifal at the Vlaamese Opera Antwerp / Ghent, director Tatjana Gürbacas (also voted Director of the Year).

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New opera: George Benjamin, Written on Skin.

Singer of the Year: Barbara Hannigan (for her performance in Written on Skin).

Orchestra of the Year: Dresden Staatskapelle.

Record of the Year: Cecilia Bartoli’s Norma

 

Tatiana Stoklitskaya, a professor at Moscow’s Central School of Music, had not been seen since September 25.

Last night, her mutilated body was found by friends in her suburban dacha.

The police are questioning a suspect, apparently a builder who had worked on the cottage.

Tatiana Stoklitskaya taught many international virtuosi at an early stage of their development. Aside from the young Pletnev, her pupils included Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Maxim Vengerov and Vladimir Feltsman. She wrote several books on primary education for musicians and founded the museum at the Central School of Music. She was its curator to the day of her death.

On September 26, Tatiana Stoklitskaya would have celebrated her 75th birthday.

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