3rd September 2024

Awards, International Opera Awards 2024 - The Shortlisted Recordings

International Opera Awards The shortlist for this year's International Opera Awards was announced yesterday, with Golda Schultz, Aigul Akhmetshina and Michael Spyres among the artists in the running for the solo recital category and rarities by Louise Bertin, Rued Langgaard and Giacomo Meyerbeer going head-to-head in the complete recording stakes...

We had the pleasure of speaking to Golda and Aigul about their nominated recordings earlier this summer, so do check out our interviews with the artists if you missed them the first time around! Full details of all nominees (including the contenders for Male and Female Singers of the Year, New Production, and the Readers' Award) can be viewed on the International Opera Awards website; the winners will be announced in a gala ceremony hosted by the Bayerische Staatsoper at Munich’s Prinzregententheater on Wednesday 2nd October...

Complete Recording

Nicola Alaimo (Murena), Albina Shagimuratova (Argelia), Sergey Romanovsky (Settimio), Lluís Calvet i Pey (Publio), André Henriques (Lucio/Flavio), Kezia Bienek (Leontina)

Britten Sinfonia, Carlo Rizzi

Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV

Thomas Lehman (Lucifer), Jonas Grundner-Culemann (The Voice of God), Irene Roberts (The Air of Mystery), Valeriia Savinskaia (The Echo of The Air of Mystery), Clemens Bieber (The Mouth Speaking Great Words), Maire Therese Carmack (Despondency), Flurina Stucki (The Great Whore), AJ Glueckert (The Scarlet Beast), Andrew Dickinson (The Lie), Joel Allison (Hate)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stephan Zilias

Also available on DVD.

Available Format: Blu-ray

Karine Deshayes (Fausto), Karina Gauvin (Margarita), Ante Jerkunica (Mefistofele), Nico Darmanin (Valentino), Marie Gautrot (Catarina)

Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir, Christophe Rousset

Available Formats: 2 CDs + Book, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

Mathias Vidal (Thésée), Karine Deshayes (Médée), Deborah Cachet (Aeglé), Marie Lys (Cléone/Cérès), Bénédicte Tauran, (La Grande Prêtresse de Minerve), Thaïs Raï-Westphal (Dorine/Venus)

Les Talens Lyriques, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset

Available Formats: 3 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

Julia Bullock (Dame Shirley), Ryan McKinny (Clarence), Davone Tines (Ned Peters), Hye Jung Lee (Ah Sing), Daniela Mack (Josef Segovia), Paul Appleby (Joe Cannon), Elliot Madore (Ramón)

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, John Adams

Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV

John Osborn (Jean de Leyde), Elizabeth DeShong (Fidès), Mané Galoyan (Berthe), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Count Oberthal)

London Symphony Orchestra, Mediterranean Youth Orchestra, Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône, Lyon Opera Chorus, Sir Mark Elder

Available Formats: 3 SACDs, MP3, FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res FLAC/ALAC/WAV, Hi-Res+ FLAC/ALAC/WAV

Recording (Solo Recital)

Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniele Rustioni; with Freddie De Tommaso (tenor), Elisabeth Boudreault (soprano), Kezia Bienek (mezzo)