Casta Diva Prize laureates

The jury of the Russian opera Award Casta Diva called the laureates according to the results of 2020.

The prize is awarded in four nominations:

• Singer of the year
  Nadezhda Pavlova (Volkhova, "Sadko" of Rimsky-Korsakov, the Bolshoi Theater of Russia).

• Singer of the year
  Zazmiddin Mavlyanov (Sadko, Sadko Rimsky-Korsakov, Bolshoi Theater of Russia)

• The best foreign singer
  Lisa Davidsen (Leonora, Fidelio Beethoven, Covent Garden, London; Ziglynda, Valkyrie Wagner, Deuteche Oper, Berlin).

• The best foreign singer
  Christian Gerhar (Bokkanigra, Simon Bokkanigra, Verdi, Opera Zurich).

The award ceremony and the concert of the winners (including laureates of previous years and honorary guests) is supposed to be held on October 18 in Moscow on the stage of the New Opera Theater named after E.V. Kolobova.

Jury of the Casta Diva Award: Ekaterina Biryukova, Marina Gaykovich, Irina Muravyeva, Nora Potapova, Elena Tretyakova (chairman), Sergey Khonev.

Jury comment:

For the Russian opera process, as for the world, the “covid” year turned out to be a huge test. This led to the reaction of the Casta Diva award - its new, largely forced position. Since theaters, in fact, ceased to release the premieres for the first time, it was decided to miss 2020 in the nomination “The performance of the year”.

In the nominations, “The singer/singer of the year of the jury allocated Nadezhda Pavlov and Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov for vivid work in the inextricable production of Sadko Bolshoi Theater (director Dmitry Chernyakov).

Lisa Davidsen and Christian Herhaer leads in the nomination of the “best foreign singers” as outstanding and versatile singers-actors, interpreters of the most difficult roles in the leading world scenes.