2022Winner
Best Performance
Ennio
Antonio Pappano
Actor · Director · Writer
Epping, Essex, England, UK
December 30, 1956
Biography
Sir Antonio Pappano (born 30 December 1959) is an English-Italian conductor and pianist. In 1992, Pappano became music director of La Monnaie, the Belgian Royal Opera House, a post he held until 2002. In that year, he was named the music director of the Royal Opera House (ROH), Covent Garden. At Covent Garden, Pappano and Kasper Holten, the ROH Director of Opera, shared responsibility for production. His current ROH contract runs through to 2017, and was extended until 2023. Pappano was the youngest conductor to lead the orchestra of the ROH, accompanying both the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet. In 2015 he received a Gold Medal from the Royal Philharmonic Society
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2015Winner
Best Director
Manon Lescaut - Royal Opera House
2011Winner
Best Performance
Il Trittico - Royal Opera House
Career Highlights
2025Highlight
Best Performance
Die Walküre - Royal Opera House
2023Highlight
Best Performance
Das Rheingold - Royal Opera House
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Ennio
Il Trittico - Royal Opera House