''Opernwelt'' (''Opera World'') is a monthly German magazine for opera,

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, and length of the work. Apart from its shorter length, the oper ...

and ballet. It includes news about current performances, portraits of composers and performers, articles about opera houses, performance spaces, and contemporary and historical subjects from the world of opera and classical music. It reviews recordings and books and publishes monthly schedules of German and international opera houses. The magazine's website offers full text search for past issues. A year book is published every October.

Awards

Each year since 1994, at the end of the season, the magazine sponsors a jury of 50 critics to select the best in several categories: * opera house of the year () * staging of the year () * stage director of the year () * singer of the year () * stage- and costume designer of the year () * conductor of the year () * orchestra of the year () * premiere of the year () They are usually selected from German-speaking countries, Austria, Germany and German-speaking Switzerland. In 2011, La Monnaie received the accolade, the first time it has been given to a non-German speaking house.

Opera house of the year

Source:

Choir of the year

Source: * 1998/1999: Stuttgarter Staatsopernchor * 1999/2000: Stuttgarter Staatsopernchor * 2000/2001: Stuttgarter Staatsopernchor * 2001/2002. Stuttgarter Staatsopernchor * 2002/2003: Stuttgarter Staatsopernchor * 2003/2004: Staatsopernchor Hannover * 2004/2005. Stuttgarter Staatsopernchor * 2005/2006: Stuttgarter Staatsopernchor * 2006/2007: Chor der Komischen Oper Berlin * 2007/2008: Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin * 2008/2009: Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin * 2009/2010: Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin * 2010/2011: Stuttgarter Staatsopernchor * 2011/2012: Stuttgarter Staatsopernchor * 2012/2013: Chor des Theaters Basel * 2013/2014: Chor des Nationaltheaters Mannheim * 2014/2015: Chor der Komischen Oper Berlin * 2015/2016: Chor der Nationale Opera in Amsterdam * 2016/2017: Chor der Staatsoper Stuttgart * 2017/2018: Chor der Staatsoper Stuttgart * 2018/2019: Chor der Staatsoper Stuttgart * 2019/2020: Chor der Staatsoper Stuttgart * 2020/2021: – * 2021/2022: Chor der Oper Frankfurt * 2022/2023: Chor der Oper Frankfurt * 2023/2024: Chor der Oper Frankfurt

Orchestra of the year

Source: * 1998/1999: Berliner Philharmoniker * 1999/2000: Staatskapelle Berlin * 2000/2001: Philharmonia Zurich * 2001/2002: Staatsorchester Stuttgart * 2002/2003: Essener Philharmonie * 2003/2004: Staatskapelle Berlin * 2004/2005: Staatskapelle Berlin * 2005/2006: Staatskapelle Berlin * 2006/2007: Freiburger Barockorchester * 2007/2008: Essener Philharmonie and Staatskapelle Berlin * 2008/2009: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester * 2009/2010: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester * 2010/2011: Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester * 2011/2012:

Bayerisches Staatsorchester The Bavarian State Orchestra () is the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany. It has given its own series of concerts, the , since 1811. Profile The origins of the ensemble date back to 1523 and the times of composer Ludwig S ...

* 2012/2013: Staatskapelle Dresden * 2013/2014: Bayerisches Staatsorchester * 2014/2015: Bayerisches Staatsorchester * 2015/2016: Bayerisches Staatsorchester * 2016/2017: Bayerisches Staatsorchester * 2017/2018: Bayerisches Staatsorchester * 2018/2019: Bayerisches Staatsorchester * 2019/2020: Bayerisches Staatsorchester * 2020/2021: – * 2021/2022: Bayerisches Staatsorchester * 2022/2023: Bayerisches Staatsorchester * 2023/2024: Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Singer of the year

Source: * 1995/1996: Hanna Schwarz, Edita Gruberová,

Matti Salminen Matti Kalervo Salminen (born 7 July 1945) is a Finnish operatic bass, now retired, who has sung at the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival. He is distinguished by an imposing figure a ...

* 1996/1997: Edita Gruberová, Hildegard Behrens, Luana DeVol, Alan Titus * 1997/1998: Gabriele Schnaut, David Daniels, Ian Bostridge * 1998/1999: Angela Denoke, Peter Seiffert * 1999/2000: Luana DeVol * 2000/2001: Susan Graham, Jacek Strauch * 2001/2002: Anne Schwanewilms, Gabriel Sadé * 2002/2003: Anna Netrebko, * 2003/2004: Marlis Petersen * 2004/2005: Nina Stemme, Rolando Villazón * 2005/2006: Catherine Naglestad, René Pape * 2006/2007: Christine Schäfer * 2007/2008: Diana Damrau, Michael Volle * 2008/2009: Anja Harteros, Jonas Kaufmann * 2009/2010: Marlis Petersen, Christian Gerhaher * 2010/2011: Johannes Martin Kränzle * 2011/2012: Nina Stemme * 2012/2013: Barbara Hannigan * 2013/2014: Michael Volle * 2014/2015: Georg Nigl, Marlis Petersen * 2015/2016: Christian Gerhaher * 2016/2017: Anja Harteros, * 2017/2018: Johannes Martin Kränzle * 2018/2019: Asmik Grigorian * 2019/2020: Marlis Petersen, Jakub Józef Orliński * 2020/2021: – * 2021/2022: * 2022/2023: Michael Volle * 2023/2024: Asmik Grigorian, John Osborn

Conductor of the year

Source: * 1995/1996: Michael Gielen * 1996/1997: Lothar Zagrosek * 1997/1998: Ingo Metzmacher * 1998/1999: Lothar Zagrosek * 1999/2000:

Claudio Abbado Claudio Abbado (; 26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor who was one of the leading conductors of his generation. He served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the Berlin Philharm ...

* 2000/2001: Sylvain Cambreling * 2001/2002: Ádám Fischer * 2002/2003: Sebastian Weigle * 2003/2004: William Christie * 2004/2005:

Pierre Boulez Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music. Born in Montb ...

* 2005/2006: Simone Young * 2006/2007:

Kirill Petrenko Kirill Garrievich Petrenko (, Latin script: ; born 11 February 1972) is a Russian-Austrian conductor. He is chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. Early life Petrenko was born in Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, to a violinist father and m ...

* 2007/2008: Claudio Abbado * 2008/2009: Kirill Petrenko * 2009/2010: Ingo Metzmacher * 2010/2011:

Mariss Jansons Mariss Ivars Georgs Jansons (14 January 1943 – 1 December 2019) was a Latvian Conducting, conductor, best known for his interpretations of Gustav Mahler, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Strauss, and Russian composers such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, ...

* 2011/2012: Christian Thielemann * 2012/2013: Lothar Zagrosek * 2013/2014: Kirill Petrenko * 2014/2015: Kirill Petrenko * 2015/2016: Teodor Currentzis * 2016/2017: Hartmut Haenchen * 2017/2018:

John Eliot Gardiner Sir John Eliot Gardiner (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, especially the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of 2000, performing Church cantata (Bach), Bach's church ...

* 2018/2019: Joana Mallwitz * 2019/2020: Kirill Petrenko, Titus Engel * 2020/2021: – * 2021/2022: Kirill Petrenko * 2022/2023: Kirill Petrenko * 2023/2024: Pablo Heras-Casado

Stage director of the year

Source: * 1996/1997: Herbert Wernicke * 1997/1998: Peter Konwitschny * 1998/1999: Peter Konwitschny * 1999/2000: Peter Konwitschny * 2000/2001: Peter Konwitschny * 2001/2002: Sergio Morabito and Jossi Wieler * 2002/2003: Christof Loy * 2003/2004: Christof Loy * 2004/2005: Hans Neuenfels * 2005/2006: Sebastian Baumgarten * 2006/2007: Stefan Herheim * 2007/2008: Christof Loy und Hans Neuenfels * 2008/2009: Stefan Herheim * 2009/2010: Stefan Herheim * 2010/2011: Achim Freyer * 2011/2012: Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito * 2012/2013: Tatjana Gürbaca * 2013/2014: Romeo Castellucci * 2014/2015: Hans Neuenfels * 2015/2016: Barrie Kosky * 2016/2017: Dmitri Tcherniakov * 2017/2018: Peter Konwitschny * 2018/2019: Romeo Castellucci * 2019/2020: Tobias Kratzer * 2020/2021: – * 2021/2022: Kirill Serebrennikov * 2022/2023: Dmitri Tcherniakov * 2023/2024: Lydia Steier for Verdi's ''Aida'' in Frankfurt

Staging of the year

Source: * 1995/1996: '' Xerxes'' by

Georg Friedrich Händel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( ; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque music, Baroque composer well-known for his opera#Baroque era, operas, oratorios, anthems, concerto grosso, concerti grossi, ...

at the Bayerische Staatsoper * 1996/1997: ''Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern'' by

Helmut Lachenmann Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann (; born 27 November 1935) is a German composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. Associated with the "instrumental musique concrète" style, Lachenmann is alongside Wolfgang Rihm as among the leading Germa ...

at the Staatsoper Hannover * 1997/1998: ''

Die Entführung aus dem Serail ' () (Köchel catalogue, K. 384; ''The Abduction from the Seraglio''; also known as ') is a singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Gottlieb Stephanie, based on Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's . The plot concer ...

'' by

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...

at the Staatsoper Stuttgart * 1998/1999: '' Káťa Kabanová'' by

Leoš Janáček Leoš Janáček (, 3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, Music theory, music theorist, Folkloristics, folklorist, publicist, and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian folk music, Moravian and other Slavs, Slavic music, includin ...

at the Salzburger Festspiele * 1999/2000: ''

Götterdämmerung ' (; ''Twilight of the Gods''), Wagner-Werk-Verzeichnis, WWV 86D, is the last of the four epic poetry, epic music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Literary cycle, cycle ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'' (English: ''The Ring of the Nibelung''). I ...

'' by

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

at the Staatsoper Stuttgart * 2000/2001: '' Falstaff'' by

Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi ( ; ; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi, his operas. He was born near Busseto, a small town in the province of Parma ...

at the Opernhaus Graz * 2001/2002: '' Ariadne auf Naxos'' by

Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; ; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his Tone poems (Strauss), tone poems and List of operas by Richard Strauss, operas. Considered a leading composer of the late Roman ...

at the Salzburger Festspiele * 2002/2003: '' Rinaldo'' by

in Montpellier, Innsbruck und Berlin * 2003/2004: '' Al gran sole carico d'amore'' by Luigi Nono at the Staatsoper Hannover * 2004/2005: '' Doktor Faust'' by

Ferruccio Busoni Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher. His international career and reputation led him to work closely with many of the leading musicians, artists and literary ...

at the Staatsoper Stuttgart * 2005/2006: '' Alceste'' by

Christoph Willibald Gluck Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (; ; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period (music), classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of th ...

an der Staatsoper Stuttgart * 2006/2007: '' Aus einem Totenhaus'' by

bei den

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* 2007/2008: '' Penthesilea'' by

Othmar Schoeck Othmar Schoeck (1 September 1886 – 8 March 1957) was a Swiss List of Romantic-era composers, Romantic classical composer, opera composer, musician, and Conductor (music), conductor. He was known mainly for his considerable output of lied, art ...

at the Theater Basel * 2008/2009: '' Parsifal'' by

at the Bayreuther Festspiele * 2009/2010: ''

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'' by

at the La Monnaie * 2010/2011: ''

Les Huguenots () is an opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer and is one of the most popular and spectacular examples of grand opera. In five acts, to a libretto by Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps, it premiered in Paris on 29 February 1836. Composition history '' ...

'' by

Giacomo Meyerbeer Giacomo Meyerbeer (born Jakob Liebmann Meyer Beer; 5 September 1791 – 2 May 1864) was a German opera composer, "the most frequently performed opera composer during the nineteenth century, linking Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart and Richard Wa ...

at the La Monnaie * 2011/2012: '' La sonnambula'' by Vincenzo Bellini at the Staatsoper Stuttgart * 2012/2013: '' Parsifal'' by

at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerpen * 2013/2014: ''

Die Soldaten ' (''The Soldiers'') is a four-act opera in German by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, based on the 1776 play by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. In a letter accompanying his newly printed play (23 July 1776, aged 24) that he sent to his best friend, the ...

'' by

Bernd Alois Zimmermann Bernd Alois Zimmermann (20 March 1918 – 10 August 1970) was a German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera ''Die Soldaten'', which is regarded as one of the most important German operas of the 20th century, after those of Berg. Hi ...

at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich * 2014/2015: '' Jakob Lenz,'' Kammeroper by Wolfgang Rihm at the Staatsoper Stuttgart * 2015/2016: '' Donnerstag aus Licht'' by

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...

at the Theater Basel * 2016/2017: ''

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'' by

Alban Berg Alban Maria Johannes Berg ( ; ; 9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School. His compositional style combined Romantic lyricism with the twelve-tone technique. Although he left a relatively sma ...

at the Hamburgische Staatsoper * 2017/2018: ''

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (; "The Master-Singers of Nuremberg"), WWV 96, is a music drama, or opera, in three acts, by Richard Wagner. It is the longest opera commonly performed, taking nearly four and a half hours, not counting two breaks between acts, and is traditio ...

'' by

at the Bayreuther Festspiele * 2018/2019: ''

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'' by

at the Salzburger Festspiele * 2019/2020: '' Tannhäuser'' by

at the Bayreuther Festspiele * 2020/2021: – * 2021/2022: ''Die Nacht vor Weihnachten'' by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov at the Oper Frankfurt * 2022/2023: '' Krieg und Frieden'' by

Sergei Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''. , group=n ( – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who l ...

at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich * 2023/2024: Wagner's ''Tannhäuser'' by Matthew Wild at the Oper Frankfurt, Schönberg's '' Moses und Aron'' by Lorenzo Fiorini in Bonn, Tschaikowsky's '' Pique Dame'' by Timofej Kuljabin at the Opéra de Lyon, Weinberg's '' The Passenger'' by Tobias Kratzer at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Martinů's '' The Greek Passion'' by Simon Stones at the Salzburger Sommerfestspiele

Premiere of the year

Source: * 1996/1997: ''Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern'' by

at the Hamburg State Opera * 1997/1998: ''Die tödliche Blume'' by Salvatore Sciarrino at the Schwetzinger Festspiele * 1998/1999: '' Schneewittchen'' by Heinz Holliger at the Opernhaus Zürich * 1999/2000: ''Pnima'' by Chaya Czernowin at the Münchener Biennale * 2000/2001: '' Bernarda Albas Haus'' by Aribert Reimann at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich * 2001/2002: ''

'' by Salvatore Sciarrino at the Schwetzinger Festspiele * 2002/2003: ''Begehren'' by

Beat Furrer Beat Furrer (born 6 December 1954) is a Swiss-born Austrian composer and conductor. He has served as professor of composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since 1991. He was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2018 ...

at the Steirischer Herbst in Graz * 2003/2004: '' Das Gesicht im Spiegel'' by Jörg Widmann at the Cuvilliés-Theater Munich * 2004/2005: ''iOpal'' by Hans-Joachim Hespos at the Staatsoper Hannover * 2005/2006: ''Ein Atemzug – die Odyssee'' by Isabel Mundry at the

Deutsche Oper Berlin The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house (after Munich's) and also home to the Berlin State Ballet. Since 2004, the ...

* 2006/2007: ''Alice in Wonderland'' by

Unsuk Chin Unsuk Chin ( ; born July 14, 1961) is a South Korean composer of contemporary classical music, who is based in Berlin, Germany. Chin was a self-taught pianist from a young age and studied composition at Seoul National University as well as with ...

at the Bayerische Staatsoper * 2007/2008: ''Phaedra'' by

Hans Werner Henze Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large List of compositions by Hans Werner Henze, oeuvre is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Igor Stravinsky, Stravinsky, Mu ...

at the Berliner Staatsoper * 2008/2009: ''Proserpina'' by Wolfgang Rihm bei den Schwetzinger Festspiele, ''Hamlet'' by Christian Jost at the

Komische Oper Berlin The Komische Oper Berlin is a German opera company based in Berlin. The company produces operas, operettas and musicals. The opera house is located on Behrenstraße, near Unter den Linden. Since 2004, the Komische Oper Berlin, along with the Be ...

and ''La porta della legge'' by Salvatore Sciarrino in

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* 2009/2010: ''

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'' by Aribert Reimann at the Wiener Staatsoper * 2010/2011: '' Dionysos'' by Wolfgang Rihm at the Salzburger Festspiele * 2011/2012: ''Orest'' by Manfred Trojahn at the

De Nederlandse Opera The Dutch National Opera (DNO; formerly De Nederlandse Opera, now De Nationale Opera in Dutch) is a Dutch opera company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Its present home base is the Dutch National Opera & Ballet housed in the Stopera building, a m ...

, Amsterdam * 2012/2013: '' Written on Skin'' by George Benjamin at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and '' Der Idiot'' by Mieczysław Weinberg at the Nationaltheater Mannheim * 2013/2014: ''Böse Geister'' by Adriana Hölszky (after Dostoevsky) at the Nationaltheater Mannheim * 2014/2015: ''Esame di mezzanotte'' by Lucia Ronchetti at the Nationaltheater Mannheim * 2015/2016: ''Koma'' by Georg Friedrich Haas for the Schwetzinger Festspiele and the Staatstheater Darmstadt * 2016/2017: ''Infinite Now'' by Chaya Czernowin, coproduction Vlaamse Opera Antwerpen/Gent, Nationaltheater Mannheim and

IRCAM IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of Avant-garde music, avant garde and Electroacoustic ...

, Paris * 2017/2018: ''Lunea'' by Heinz Holliger at the Opernhaus Zürich * 2018/2019: '' Fin de partie'' by György Kurtág at the

La Scala La Scala (, , ; officially , ) is a historic opera house in Milan, Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as (, which previously was Santa Maria della Scala, Milan, a church). The premiere performa ...

* 2019/2020: ''Orlando'' by Olga Neuwirth at the Wiener Staatsoper ex aequo with ''

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'' by Hans Abrahamsen (Copenhagen and Munich) * 2020/2021: – * 2021/2022: ''Sleepless'' by Péter Eötvös at the Staatsoper Berlin and ''Girl with a Pearl Earring'' by at Opernhaus Zürich * 2022/2023: ''Blühen'' by Vito Žuraj at the Oper Frankfurt and ''La Légende de Tristan'' by Charles Tournemire at the Theater Ulm * 2023/2024: ''Dora'' by Bernhard Lang at the Staatsoper Stuttgart

References

External links

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