Casta Diva opera prize winners are announced

Today, February 26, the winners of the Russian opera Award Casta Diva for 2017 in the nominations “Event of the Year”, “Singer of the Year”, “Singer of the Year”, “Cavalier of the Opera” and - for the first time in the history of the prize - “World Premiere” were known.

The list of laureates and the commentary of the chairman of the jury, the president of the Casta Diva Opera Diva Opera Diva support fund, Mikhail Muginstein, were published in the Fesbuke of the award.

Casta Diva opera winners for 2017:

• "Event of the year"
  The inspired art of the Chora Musicaeterna (artistic director Theodore Krentzis , the main chief chormaster Vitaly Polonsky) in the performances of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater and the Salzburg festival

• "The performance of the year"
  "Alcin" Handel. Bolshoi Theater of Russia (co-products with a festival in ex-en-provers)
  Musical director and conductor - Andrea Markon
  Director - Katie Mitchell
  Scenographer - Chloe Lampford

• "World Premiere"
  "Prose" of Vladimir Rannev. Electrotheater Stanislavsky, Moscow
  Musical Director - Arina Zvereva
  Director - Vladimir Rannev
  Scenographer - Marina Alekseeva

• "Singer of the year"
  Aida Garifullina (Snow Maiden, “Snow Maiden” by Rimsky-Korsakov, Musette, “Bohemia” Puccini, Opera of Basy, Paris)

• "Singer of the Year"
  Vladislav Sulimsky (Simon Bokkanigra, Simon Bokkanigra and Guy de Monfort, “Sicilian Vespers” Verdi, Alberich “Rhine Gold” Vagner, Mariinsky Theater)

• "Cavalier of the opera"
  Valery Gergiev

The award ceremony and the concert of the winners (including laureates of past years and honorary guests) will be held on October 6 on the stage of the Moscow New Opera Theater named after E.V. Kolobova.

The founders of the Casta Diva Award: Humanitarian University and the Center for the Musical Theater (Yekaterinburg), the humanitarian and political science center Strategy (Moscow), Editions: Culture, Screen and Scene, Literary Gazeta, Music Academy, Petersburg Theater Theater, Orpheus Radio.

Jury of the Casta Diva Award: Julia Bederova , Ekaterina Biryukova , Mikhail Muginstein (chairman), Peter Pospelov , Nora Potapova, Elena Tretyakova.