International Opera Awards Ceremony 2022 Live
OperaCrowned ‘Opera Company of the Year’ in 2021, Teatro Real is host of the 2022 International Opera Awards ceremony. Live from Madrid, Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision, streams the complete ceremony featuring an exciting array of categories including: Best Conductor, Designer, Digital Opera, Director, Equal Opportunities & Impact, Female Singer, Festival, Male Singer, New Production, Readers’ Award, Recording (Complete Opera), Recording (Solo Recital), Rediscovered Work, Rising Talent, Sustainability and World Premiere.
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, will be chaired by John Allison, editor of Opera magazine. The ceremony will be in English with an excellent programme of live performance, detailed below:
PROGRAMME
La vida breve. Interludio y Danza española. Manuel de Falla
Teatro Real Choir
Madama Butterfly. ‘Un bel dì vedremo’. Giacomo Puccini
Barno Ismatullaeva, soprano
La tabernera del puerto. ‘No puede ser’. Pablo Sorozábal
Iván Ayón Rivas, tenor
Lucia di Lammermoor. Gaetano Donizetti
Sabina Puertolas, soprano
Xabier Anduaga, tenor
Macbeth. ‘Patria opressa’. Giuseppe Verdi
Teatro Real Choir
I puritani. Vincenzo Bellini
Jessica Pratt, soprano
Francesco Demuro, tenor
El barbero de Sevilla. ‘Me llaman La Primorosa’. Gerónimo Giménez y Manuel Nieto
Sabina Puertolas, soprano
Le nozze di Figaro. ‘E Susanna non vien…Dove sono…’. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Nardus Williams, soprano
Doña Francisquita. Coro de románticos. Amadeo Vives
Teatro Real Choir
You’ve missed off from the programme Siegfried’s Farewell which they’ve included as a tribute to Harry Brunjes at ENO. Some might prefer to remember his production of It’s not a very Wonderful Life and for his portrayal as Jack Pointless in The Yeomen of the Guard.
Chaired by Opera magazine’s editor, John “Bollocks to Brexit” Allison? Terribly unbiased as a judge, I’m sure. How can this junket fail to excite us all?
“Slipped Disc streams…” – that’s chutzpah for you!
Good to see that at least a smattering of zarzuela was included in the Gala programme – it’s about time the wider operatic world took Spain’s superb lyric stage repertoire to heart. I hear that Sabine Puertolas’s ‘Polonaise’ from the Giménez/Nieto zarzuela was the big hit of the evening.