U.K.'s Opera
magazine has jumped on the annual award bandwagon, with Oper Frankfurt
and tenor Jonas Kaufmann among the first recipients, for "opera company"
and "male singer," respectively. The awards, at a gala dinner in
London, are to be known as "the Operas" and were established by the
magazine's editor, John Allison, and British businessman Harry Hyman.
There are 23 categories in all, with "accessibility" going to the
Metropolitan Opera, presumably for the HD initiative. Among other
winners were the Cape Town Opera in the chorus category, Salzburg as
opera festival, Antonio Pappano as conductor, George Benjamin's Written on Skin as world premiere, Nina Stemme as female singer, and the MET Orchestra for opera orchestra.
Among
the ten jurors, the majority of them male, were San Francisco Opera
Artistic Director David Gockley; Salzburg Easter Festival Managing
Artistic Director Peter Alward; Joan Matabosch, artistic director of the
Gran Teatre del Liceu; Guus Mostart, manager of the Nationale Reisopera
in Enschede; and Brit journalists Hugh Canning, Rupert Christiansen,
and Andrew Clements.
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