About award
Fifth Annual Onegin National Opera Award Ceremony, 2020
Mikhailovsky Theater November 13, 2020
Winners and Nominees by Category
Female Debut
Winner
Yulia Yumaeva
NOVAT
Nannetta - “Falstaff”
Nominees
Maria Yurkovskaya
Independent Opera Project “Montecchi VS Opera”
Romeo - “Capuleti & Montecchi”
Male Debut
Winner
Miroslav Molchanov
The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera
Quasimodo - “Esmeralda”
Nominees
Valeriy Gordeev
Ural Opera Ballet Theatre
Rigoletto - “Rigoletto”
Primadonna
Winner
Olesya Petrova
Mikhailovsky Theatre
Amneris - “Aida”
Nominees
Daria Ryabinko
The Krasnoyarsk State Opera and Ballet Theatre named after D. A. Hvorostovsky
The Keeper - “Night at the Museum”
Maria Makeeva
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre
Anne Trulove - “The Rake’s Progress”
Master of the Stage
Winner
Yuriy Devin
Ural Opera Ballet Theatre
Rigoletto - “Rigoletto”
Nominees
Dmitry Kalyaka
The St. Petersburg State Musical Theatre for Children Zazerkalie
Othello - “Othello”
Dmitry Zuev
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre
Nick Shadow - “The Rake’s Progress”
Distinguished Guest
Winner
Bogdan Volkov
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre
Tom Rakewell - “The Rake’s Progress”
Nominees
Ilgam Valiev
Ural Opera Ballet Theatre
Duke of Mantua - “Rigoletto”
Cast
Winner
Falstaff
NOVAT
Alexey Zelenkov, Gury Guryev, Nadezhda Nesterova, Yulia Yumaeva, Evgeniy Kozyrev
Nominees
Othello
The St. Petersburg State Musical Theatre for Children Zazerkalie
Dmitry Kalyaka, Olga Cheremnykh, Victor Korotich, Roman Arndt, Ekaterina Kurbanova
The Rake’s Progress
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre
Maria Makeeva, Bogdan Volkov, Dmitry Zuev, Andrew Watts, Valeriy Mikitsky
Supporting Role
Winner
Anatoly Nevdakh
Samara Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
Truffaldino - “The Love for Three Oranges”
Nominees
Valeriy Mikitsky
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre
Sellem - “The Rake’s Progress”
Mikhail Korobeynikov
Ural Opera Ballet Theatre
Monterone - “Rigoletto”
Cultural Event or Project
Winner
The Tsar’s Bride
Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theater
Conductor - Dmitry Banaev; Director - Sergei Shepelev
Winner
St Petersburg International Festival “All Together Opera”
St Petersburg State Theatre “Music Hall”
Artistic management - Victor Vysotsky, Fabio Mastrangelo
Nominees
Capuleti & Montecchi
Independent Opera Project “Montecchi VS Opera”
Conductor - Diana Gofman; Director - Elizaveta Korneeva
Esmeralda
Conductor - Maxim Valkov; Director -Yuri Alexandrov
The St. Petersburg Chamber Opera
Les Enfants Terribles
Moscow State Opera and Ballet Theatre for Young Audience named after Natalya Sats
Conductor - Alevtina Ioffe; Director - Georgiy Isaakyan
Soul of Opera
Winner
Galina Lioli
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre
Set Designer
Nominees
Best Online Project (COVID-19)
Winner
A Feast in Time of Plague
ART-HELIOS
Creator and Director - Dmitry Otyakovsky
Nominees
Theatre of Victory
NOVAT
Conductor - Dmitri Jurowski; Director - Vyacheslav Starodubtsev
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Moscow State Opera and Ballet Theatre for Young Audience named after Natalya Sats
Online opera play (Director and librettist - Nadezhda Bahshieva)
Concert Master
Winner
Marina Mishuk
Mariinsky theatre
Nominees
Musical Director
Winner
Pavel Bubelnikov
The St. Petersburg State Musical Theatre for Children Zazerkalie
People's artist of Russia, music Director and chief conductor
Nominees
Theatre
Winner
HELIKON–OPERA
HELIKON–OPERA UNDER DMITRY BERTMAN
Nominees
Patron of the Arts
Winner
Belmond Grand Hotel Europe
Nominees
Star
Winner
Vasiliy Ladyuk
Novaya Opera
(The Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow)
Nominees
Recognition
Winner
Alexander Vedernikov (1964-2020)
The Mikhailovsky theatre
Honored artist of the Russian Federation, Musical Director and Principal conductor
Nominees
Legend
Winner
Makvala Kasrashvili
People’s Artist of the USSR, recipient of the State Prize of the Russian Federation and the Shota Rustaveli State Prize
Nominees
From Russia with Love
Winner
Mariella Devia
Winner
Joseph Calleja
Nominees