Last night, Sunday 15 May, at the Savoy Theatre, London, the winners of the International Opera Awards were announced at a ceremony hosted by BBC Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny. We are delighted to announce that the ENO Chorus won the Chorus Award. The award was collected by Chorus Master Stephen Harris alongside members of the ENO Chorus.

Congratulations also to designer Vicki Mortimer who won the Designer award. Vicki recently designed ENO’s first children’s opera, The Way Back Home and will be designing Ryan Wigglesworth’s new opera The Winter’s Tale which premieres in February 2017.

Here is a full list of winners:

Accessibility The Opera Platform

CD Complete Opera Les Martyrs (Opera Rara)

CD Operatic Recital Ann Hallenberg: Agrippina (DHM) ‎ Chorus English National Opera

Conductor Gianandrea Noseda

Designer Vicki Mortimer

Director Laurent Pelly

DVD The Tsar’s Bride (Bel Air)

Female Singer Mariella Devia

Festival Glyndebourne

Lifetime Achievement Brigitte Fassbaender

Male Singer Gregory Kunde

New Production Peter Grimes (Theater an der Wien)

Opera Company Dutch National Opera

Philanthropists Bill & Judy Bollinger Christine Collins

Rediscovered Work Le Roi Carotte (Opéra de Lyon)

World Premiere Cold Mountain (Santa Fe Opera)

Young Conductor Giacomo Sagripanti

Young Director Fabio Ceresa

Young Female Singer Asmik Grigorian

Young Male Singer Stanislas de Barbeyrac

Readers’ Award Winner Ermonela Jaho