Birgit Nilsson Award 2025
The Birgit Nilsson Prize 2025: A Celebration of Many Voices In 2025, the world’s largest award in classical music — the Birgit Nilsson Prize — made history. For the first time, it honoured not an individual artist or orchestra, but a festival: the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, one of today’s most vibrant homes for contemporary opera. Aix has become a place where composers, writers, performers and audiences meet to reshape the future of the art form. The jury singled out Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence — a multilingual, deeply human exploration of guilt, loss and connection, premiered at Aix in 2021…
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