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Promoting excellence in international opera and supporting aspiring talent through The Opera Awards Foundation.
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The International Opera Awards 2025 will be hosted in Athens at the Greek National Opera on 13 Nov 2025!.Made possible by @SNForg, this event honors opera’s finest talents. 📷 Nominations open: 30 May 2025.📷 Tickets on sale soon.#OperaAwards2025 #Opera #GreekNationalOpera
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And the #OperaAwards2021 Male Singer of the Year is. The tenor Javier Camarena! @tenorjcamarena dedicates his award to “the entire artistic community” for its commitment despite the challenges of 2020. #winners
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The Lifetime Achievement award is given this year to legendary mezzo-soprano Dame Janet Baker, celebrating her illustrious career 🏆 #OperaAwards2022
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We're so sad to hear that the great Renata Scotto has died. It was our privilege to present her with the Lifetime Achivement award in 2017 and her speech brought the house down. A true icon.
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Congratulations to @Lisette_Oropesa , crowned Female Singer of the Year at the #OperaAwards2024.🎶 An extraordinary talent lighting up opera stages across the globe. #LisetteOropesa #OperaAwards #Soprano
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And the winner of the #OperaAwards2021 @operamagazine Readers' Award is the one - the only - Jamie Barton @jbartonmezzo! #winners
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👏 Congratulations to José van Dam, winner of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award!. A true icon whose incredible career has inspired and shaped the opera world for decades. #OperaAwards2024 #LifetimeAchievement #JosévanDam #OperaLegend #BravoMaestro
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The Male Singer of the Year award goes to… @ben_bernheim ! 🏆. Though Benjamin couldn’t join us in person, he sends a message from New York, where he's performing in Tales of Hoffmann at @MetOpera. #InternationalOperaAwards #MaleSinger #BenjaminBernheim #operaawards2024
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Every year our Lifetime Achievement Award honours one of the opera world's all-time greats. This year we pay tribute to the extraordinary Leontyne Price - a trailblazer in opera, whose legacy lives on to this day and whose astonishing voice remains unmatched. #OperaAwards2019
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And the winner of the #OperaAwards2018 Education and Outreach Award is. @operahollandpk's Inspire programme!.
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We could think of no better day than today, her birthday, to share the news that Teresa Berganza is our #OperaAwards2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner. She will be presented with the award on stage at the London Coliseum on April 9.
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Now to the award for Conductor of the Year. And the winner is Kirill Petrenko @bay_staatsoper - the first artist ever to win this award twice. #OperaAwards2021 #winners
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The #OperaAwards2018 World Premiere of the Year is. @brettdeanmusic's Hamlet from @glyndebourne, starring @fatboyclayton @HanniganBarbara @spconnolly and conducted by our Conductor of the Year, Vladimir Jurowski.
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And the #OperaAwards2021 Opera Orchestra of the Year is… the Bayerisches Staatsorchester @bay_staatsoper. Lots of celebrate in Munich tonight, with wins for both their orchestra and chief conductor. #winners
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While @Teatro_Real was selected as the winner by our jury before the pandemic, for its outstanding work in 2019, we also recognise their trailblazing efforts in bringing live opera back to the stage despite coronavirus restrictions. Congratulations! #OperaAwards2021 #winners.
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Congrats to Savonlinna Opera Festival for winning Festival of the Year at the #OperaAwards2024! 🌟. A stunning festival set against the beauty of Finland, celebrating the best in opera! 🎶. #Opera #Savonlinna #FestivalOfTheYear @operafestivalfi
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Next up, the lovely @brinsherratt joins us to present the award for Female Singer of the Year. And the winner is. The soprano @LiseDavidsen, performing tonight at @teatroallascala in their re-opening concert. Congratulations Lise! #OperaAwards2021 #winners
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Last night's Grenfell Benefit concert raised £30k for survivors. Well done @Nazan_Fikret and team.
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Finalists for the @operamagazine Readers' Award are:.-@IldarAbdrazakov.-@BartoliOfficial.-@jbartonmezzo.-@elinagaranca .-@tenorkaufmann .-@MattilaKarita .-@AnnaNetrebko .-@erwinschrott .-@Spikelmyers .-@Bryn_Terfel . Vote here: #OperaAwards2020 #finalists.
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The first award of the evening is Young Singer of the Year, sponsored by our headline sponsor @Mazars_UK. And we have a tie! The joint winners are the Spanish tenor @xabieranduaga and the Russian mezzo soprano Vasilisa Berzhanskaya. #winners #OperaAwards2021
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Henry Little, CEO of Opera Rara, winners of the award for Recording (Complete Opera) for Mercadante's Il proscritto.
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Among those we're recognising tonight for their work under lockdown: @Vopera20, the NexTus Festival, @PacificOperaVic, @E_N_O Breathe, @NadinBenjamin, @donizettiopera, @operahollandpk, @SeattleOpera, @IrishNatOpera, @Lisette_Oropesa & @Teatro_Real. #OperaAwards2021 #resilience.
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The #OperaAwards2018 New Production of the Year is. Deborah Warner's production of Billy Budd for @Teatro_Real. We're thrilled to have Teatro Real director Joan Matabosch with us, joined by director Deborah Warner.
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Our penultimate award of the evening is the Lifetime Achievement Award, which this year honours the life and career of the great Bernard Haitink. To present it, we welcome Dame Felicity Lott. #OperaAwards2021 #winners
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And the award for Recording (Solo Recital) of the Year goes to Jakub Józef Orliński for Facce d'amore, recorded with @ilpdo and released on Erato @WarnerClassics. #OperaAwards2021 #winners
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A huge congratulations to @ArturoChaconC - Arturo Chacón Cruz - winner of the 2024 Readers’ Award at the #operaawards2024 ! 🏆. His performance of "Cielo e mar" from La Gioconda tonight truly left us in awe. #ReadersAward #ArturoChaconCruz #LaGioconda #OperaLovers
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And the #OperaAwards2018 Male Singer of the Year is. Piotr Beczala. Piotr is in New York tonight singing in Luisa Miller @MetOpera but has sent a message from Manhattan.
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A very special performance now. In memory of the victims of Grenfell, a community chorus brought together by @operahollandpk to perform "Help Me Believe" conducted by @GarethMalone with composer @Will_Todd_Music at the piano. #OperaAwards2019
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The #OperaAwards2018 Opera Company of the Year is. @bay_staatsoper!. We welcome Christoph Koch to accept the trophy on behalf of the company.
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A huge congratulations to Christina Scheppelmann, winner of the Leadership in Opera Award at the 2024 International Opera Awards! 🏆. #InternationalOperaAwards #OperaLeadership #ChristinaScheppelmann #operaawards2024
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The winner of the award for Solo Recital of the Year is. @Stephdegout's Enfers, released by @harmoniamundi. #OperaAwards2019
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OPERA COMPANY OF THE YEAR #OperaAwards2018 #finalists.@bay_staatsoper .@teatrolafenice .@LyricOpera .@opergraz .@Opera_North .@Teatro_Real.
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We promised you good news, and here it is. The 2021 International Opera Awards will be going ahead on May 10 as a virtual event, hosted by @PetrocTrelawny & featuring special guests & exclusive performances. Tickets just £10. #OperaAwards2021.
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And the #OperaAwards2019 Opera Orchestra of the Year is. the orchestra of @TheRoyalOpera. To accept, their concertmaster Vasko Vassilev.
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And that’s us done for another year! Thanks everyone for joining us here at @Sadlers_Wells and online and congratulations to all of our #OperaAwards2019 winners! 🎉🎉🎉
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We're also *thrilled* to reveal that @Alek_Kurzak and @roberto_alagna will perform at #OperaAwards2020 on May 4 at Sadler's Wells. Further details of this year's line up coming soon!
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Congrats #OperaAwards2017 Young Singer of the Year @louisealdersop, winner of the Audience Prize at #CardiffSinger! .
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We’re here at the glorious @Teatro_Real in Madrid for this year’s awards (in-person for the first time since 2019!). We’ll be live tweeting the ceremony throughout the evening so follow #OperaAwards2022 for all the news 🏆📰
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The #OperaAwards2019 Female Singer of the Year is. @AsmikGrigorian! Asmik was Young Singer of the Year in 2016: this is the first time a singer has won both categories.
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Now to our next award: Chorus of the Year. And the winner is. @MetOperaChorus @MetOpera! #OperaAwards2021
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The Good Governance Institute Leadership award is this year presented to Nicholas Payne - congratulations! 🏆 #OperaAwards2022
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And the #OperaAwards2017 Solo Recital of the Year is @PrettyYende's "A Journey", released by @sony_classical.
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When you just happen to pause the #OperaAwards2018 highlights video on one of the best moments of the night. We ❤️ you @PrettyYende!
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And just like that, it's time for the last award of the night. To present the award for Opera Company of the Year, we welcome the fabulous @ErmonelaJaho - who may just win the award for best video-call background of the night! #OperaAwards2021
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And the winner is… @narduswilliams! . Nardus will also be singing for us a bit later 🎶. Congratulations 🏆 #OperaAwards2022
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Now to the award for Newcomer of the Year, for a conductor, director or composer who had a breakthrough year in 2019. And the winner is. @alpeshconductor, the Music Director of @BirminghamOpera. #OperaAwards2021 #winners
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And the award goes to Janacek's From the House of the Dead, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski for @TheRoyalOpera. #OperaAwards2019 @ktwonguk
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"Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide, with our Opera Awards Foundation chorus, featuring @tobyspence #OperaAwards2018
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The #OperaAwards2021 Recording (Complete Opera) of the Year award goes to…. Thomas's Hamlet at @Opera_Comique, released on DVD by @naxosrecords and conducted by Louis Langrée with @Stephdegout in the title role. #OperaAwards2021 #winners
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"Anything is possible. When you see my dream come true, yours will come true too." @PrettyYende is #OperaAwards2018 Readers' Award winner.
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Next, the award for Education & Outreach, celebrating companies who broaden opera's reach and engage with the wider community. And the #OperaAwards2021 winner is. @BirminghamOpera, for its immersive Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk in 2019. #winners
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YOUNG SINGER OF THE YEAR #OperaAwards2018 #finalists.Aigul Akhmetshina.Liparit Avetisyan.@GordonBintner .Amartuvshin Enkhbat.@LaurenAshFagan .Wallis Giunta.@AnushH_Soprano .Isabella Lee.Federica Lombardi.@Natalya_Romaniw.
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Voting for the #OperaAwards2020 @operamagazine Readers' Award closes five weeks from today. Choose your favourite (hard, we know) from these 10 amazing artists - result announced @Sadlers_Wells on Monday 4 May.
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Next up: the award for Director of the Year. And the winner is…. Robert Carsen - already recognised tonight for his part in the world premiere of Glanert’s Oceane. #OperaAwards2021 #winners
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Our full #OperaAwards2024 shortlists will be announced on Sep 2, but voting for the @operamagazine with Opera News Readers' Award is open NOW. See who's in the running and make your choice here:
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And the winner is… @glyndebourne for La Voix humaine/Les Mamelles de Tirésias! . Congratulations 🏆 #OperaAwards2022
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The #OperaAwards2019 Conductor of the Year is . Chief Conductor of the @DutchNatOpera, Marc Albrecht. #OperaAwards2019
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Join us tonight at 7pm CET for the .2023 International Opera Awards at the stunning .Teatr Wielki in Warsaw! 🎭🌟. #OperaAwards2023 #IOA2023 #TeatrWielki #OperaExcellence . 📺LIVESTREAM:
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Proud beyond words of @Nazan_Fikret for putting together a moving and uplifting concert for Grenfell survivors tonight. Bravi tutti.
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As chosen by you, the operagoing public, #OperaAwards2018 @operamagazine Readers' Award Winner @PrettyYende.
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A new award next, presented in conjunction with @operaforpeace_ to recognise an operatic artist who has inspired, guided & helped other artists, contributing to a better future for our field. The winner is the American mezzo soprano @denycegraves. #OperaAwards2021 #winners
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The award for Rediscovered Work of the Year goes to. @pinchgut's production of Hasse's Artaserse, starring Vivica Genaux and conducted by Erin Helyard, who we heard from earlier tonight. #OperaAwards2019
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For the first time ever, the Opera Company award is being awarded jointly to two companies - @OperaLviv and Odessa National Opera and Ballet Theatre from Ukraine, recognising the incredible work they’ve been doing in extraordinary circumstances 👏 🏆 #OperaAwards2022.
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Eight brilliant singers are vying for this year's @operamagazine Readers' Award. Anyone can vote online: who's your pick? #OperaAwards2018
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FEMALE SINGER OF THE YEAR #OperaAwards2018 #finalists.Malin Byström.Carmen Giannattasio.@HanniganBarbara .Hui He.@ErmonelaJaho .Eva-Maria Westbroek.
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The winner of the #OperaAwards2019 @GoodGovernInst Award for Leadership in Opera is Waldemar Dabrowski, General Manager of Polish National Opera.
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The #OperaAwards2016 Female Singer of the Year is . Mariella Devia! Bravas from the audience!.
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Congratulations to Simone Young, the Conductor of the Year at the #IOperaAwards2024 🌟.From Sydney to Bayreuth, she continues to lead with excellence and inspire audiences worldwide. #SimoneYoung #OperaAwards #Conductor
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And the winner is. The orchestra of @teatroallascala. Alexander Pereira is here to accept. #OperaAwards2018.
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We might need to establish a new category.
Book isn't even out yet and look! I'm the Number One Opera singer biography on Amazon! Anyone who has seen my Karaoke performance of Suspicious Minds will confirm I am an amazing* singer**. * Enthusiastic.** Looking at the other authors I think they've got things a bit wrong
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Serge Dorny, General Manager of @bay_staatsoper #OperaAwards2023 Opera Company of the Year with Oksana Taranenko from Odesa Opera, joint winner in this category last year.
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We've gone quite Canadian 🇨🇦 this year! Young Singer finalists Wallis Giunta and @GordonBintner will both perform at #OperaAwards2018. Tickets: @CanadianUK
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And the #OperaAwards2021 Festival of the Year is the iconic @SbgFestival, who marked their 99th birthday in 2019 - and led the way with a covid-safe programme in 2020. #winners
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"Education and Outreach is at the heart of everything we do" - @JamesOHP. Lots of cheering for that win! #OperaAwards2018.
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We're proud to have supported so many amazing women through the Opera Awards Foundation over the years. We'll be highlighting some of their achievements here throughout #IWD2018.
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Spoilt for choice!. Don't miss your chance to vote in the #OperaAwards2023 @operamagazine Readers' Award.
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And the #OperaAwards2017 Conductor of the Year is . @operadeparis Music Director, Philippe Jordan!.
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The wonderful Charles Castronovo (@CharlieTenor) with his Male Singer of the Year award! #OperaAwards2019
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And the winner is… @spikelmyers for ‘Baritenor’ on @WarnerClassics! . Congratulations 🏆 #OperaAwards2022
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The Newcomer award recognises a director, conductor, or composer who had a breakthrough year in 2018. And the winner this year is . Maxim Emelyanychev. #OperaAwards2019
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And here’s @Spikelmyers himself having come just off stage to accept his award! . #OperaAwards2022
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