International Opera Awards
Stavros Niarchos Hall
International Opera Awards
13 November 2025
Δημιουργική Ομάδα

Conductor: Konstantinos Terzakis

Featuring Soloists, the Orchestra, Chorus,  Ballet and Children’s Chorus of the GNO

 

Shortlist for this year’s Awards

Conductor
Alain Altinoglu
Edward Gardner
Karen Kamensek
Susanna Mälkki
Kent Nagano
Giacomo Sagripanti 

Designer
Ben Baur
Paolo Fantin
Erhard Rom
Rainer Sellmaier
Leslie Travers
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 Director
Calixto Bieito
Valentina Carrasco
Johannes Erath
Claus Guth
Andreas Homoki
Jetske Mijnssen

Equal Opportunities 
Dallas Opera: Hart Institute for Women Conductors
Denyce Graves Foundation
Minnesota Opera
Opera sin fronteras
Pegasus Opera
Vache Baroque

Female Singer
Anastasia Bartoli
Elsa Dreisig
Véronique Gens
Asmik Grigorian
Sondra Radvanovsky
Adela Zaharia 

Festival
Innsbruck Festival of Early Music
Janáček Brno Festival
Munich Opera Festival
Opera Forward Festival
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
Rossini Opera Festival 

Male Singer
Nicholas Brownlee
Solomon Howard
Mika Kares
Huw Montague Rendall
Brindley Sherratt
Reinoud van Mechelen 

Musical Theatre
Fiddler on the Roof (Cincinnati Opera)
Gypsy (Philharmonie de Paris)
Love Life (Opera North)
Rent (The Atlanta Opera)
Sunday in the Park with George (Glimmerglass Festival)
West Side Story (Opera di Roma/Caracalla Festival) 

New Production
Castor et Pollux (Opéra national de Paris/Peter Sellars)
The Excursions of Mr Brouček (National Theatre Brno & Staatsoper Berlin/Robert Carsen)
La forza del destino (Greek National Opera/Rodula Gaitanou)
Innocence (Semperoper/Lorenzo Fiorini)
Khovanshchina (Salzburg Easter Festival/Simon McBurney)
Louise (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence/Christof Loy)
Salome (Metropolitan Opera/Claus Guth)
Wozzeck (Opera Ballet Vlaanderen/Johan Simons) 

Opera Company
Deutsche Oper Berlin
GöteborgsOperan
Houston Grand Opera
MusikTheater an der Wien
Opernhaus Zürich
Teatro alla Scala 

Readers’ Award – Opera Magazine with Opera News
Amartuvshin Enkhbat
Freddie De Tommaso
Elīna Garanča
Wallis Giunta
Jakub Jozef Orliński
Marina Rebeka
Nadine Sierra
Bogdan Volkov

Voting for the Readers’ Award – Opera Magazine with Opera News is open until midnight (GMT) on Monday 13 October exclusively on the https://operaawards.org/vote/

Recording: Complete Opera
Bizet: Carmen (Bru Zane, DVD)
Lully: Atys (Château de Versailles Spectacles, CD & DVD)
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Erato, CD)
Ruo: An American Soldier (Platoon, CD)
Strauss: Salome (Chandos, CD)
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Naxos, DVD)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 version) (Opera Rara, CD)
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (Accentus, DVD)

Recording: Solo Recital
Eleonora Buratto: Indomita (Pentatone)
Rosa Feola: Son regina e sono amante (Pentatone)
Amanda Forsythe: Ino – Telemann arias for soprano (CPO)
Ann Hallenberg: Gluck Arias (Signum)
Roberta Mameli: The Ghosts of Hamlet (Arcana)
Huw Montague Rendall: Contemplation (Warner Classics)
Lisette Oropesa: Mis amores son las flores (EuroArts)
Eva Zaïcik: Rebelle: (Alpha) 

Rediscovered Work
Boccherini: Doña Clementina (Opera Southwest)
Galuppi: L’uomo femina (Opéra de Dijon)
Lemoyne: Phèdre (Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe)
Moore: Giants in the Earth (South Dakota Symphony Orchestra)
Porpora: Ifigenia in Aulide (Bayreuth Baroque)
Steffani: Orlando generoso (Musikfestspiele Potsdam)
Strauss: Waldmeister (Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz)
Traetta: Ifigenia in Tauride (Innsbruck Festival of Early Music) 

Rising Star
Adèle Charvet (mezzo-soprano)
Hugh Cutting (countertenor)
Kerem Hasan (conductor)
Deepa Johnny (mezzo-soprano)
Kenza Koutchoukali (director)
Carolina López Moreno (soprano)
Niamh O’Sullivan (mezzo-soprano)
Carles Pachón (baritone)
Sun-Ly Pierce (mezzo-soprano)
Ricardo José Rivera (baritone)

Sustainability 
Longborough Festival Opera
Oper Leipzig
Oper Wuppertal
Santa Fe Opera
Teatro Real, Madrid
Volksoper Wien

World Premiere
Cánovas/Iglesias: Don Juan no existe (Festival Perelada/Teatro Maestranza/Teatros del Canal (Madrid) / Teatro Real)
Filidei/Busellato: Il nome della rosa (Teatro alla Scala/Opéra national de Paris)
Gordon/Nottage/Gerber: This House (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis)
Hosokawa/Tawada: Natasha (New National Theatre Tokyo)
Milch-Sheriff/Ricklin: Alma (Volksoper Wien)
Prestini/Vavrek: Silent Light (National Sawdust)
Saunders/Atkins: Lash – Acts of Love (Deutsche Oper Berlin)
Turnage/Hall: Festen (The Royal Opera)
Venables/Huffman/Segal: We Are the Lucky Ones (Dutch National Opera)
Walshe/O’Connell: MARS (Irish National Opera)

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Students, children: €15
Limited visibility seats: €10

Stavros Niarchos Hall

Events

International Opera Awards

2025 Award Ceremony

Available Dates

  • 13 Nov 2025

GNO Stavros Niarchos Hall – SNFCC 

 

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The 2025 International Opera Awards ceremony will be held for the first time at the Greek National Opera. This world-class event, awarding the “Opera Oscars” (as dubbed by Süddeutsche Zeitung), will take place on 13 November 2025 at the Stavros Niarchos Hall of the Greek National Opera in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC). The star-studded evening is once again presented by the BBC’s Petroc Trelawny. The evening features live performances from renowned international opera stars with the Orchestra, Ballet, Chorus and Children’s Chorus of the Greek National Opera under the baton of Konstantinos Terzakis. The event is streamed live for free on OperaVision. The event is made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to enhance the Greek National Opera’s artistic outreach.

The International Opera Awards honour exceptional operatic talent from across the globe, celebrating the diverse and collaborative nature of this cherished art form. The annual awards ceremony has become an important landmark on the international operatic calendar. Founded by philanthropist Harry Hyman in 2012, the Awards aim to elevate the profile of opera as an art form, recognise and reward excellence, and help generate funds for the Opera Awards Foundation, which provides bursaries for emerging and talented opera creators and performers worldwide.

The Greek National Opera’s hosting of the International Opera Awards ceremony represents a natural continuation of its prolific activities, given that, since its relocation to the SNFCC in 2017 under the artistic direction of Giorgos Koumendakis and with support from the SNF, the GNO has evolved into one of the most inspired and creative opera houses in Europe, showcasing many new commissions, new productions, and international collaborations, along with a remarkable expansion of its repertoire.

The Artistic Director of the Greek National Opera, Giorgos Koumendakis, notes: “We are delighted that the Greek National Opera is going to host the International Opera Awards ceremony, for the very first time, in 2025 at the Stavros Niarchos Hall. Every year, this globally prestigious event singles out the most remarkable artistic achievements in the realm of opera and rewards younger and already distinguished opera artists along with opera houses worldwide. The award ceremony will take place on 13 November 2025, curated by the GNO and featuring the Orchestra, Chorus, and Ballet of the GNO. I would like to express my gratitude to the Opera Awards Foundation and the Awards Committee for the honour of selecting the Greek National Opera for this role, as well as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for its support of this ambitious project.”

Harry Hyman, founder of the International Opera Awards, underscores: “We’re thrilled to bring the International Opera Awards to Athens for the first time, and to continue to celebrate the truly international art form of opera. Our thanks go to the Greek National Opera for hosting the 2025 ceremony, and I look forward to celebrating with them and the rest of the opera world in November.”