Two British conductors, Opera North's Richard Farnes and the Royal Opera House's Antonio Pappano will battle it out with Germany's Ingo Metzmacher and Christian Thielemann, and Italian Nicola Luisotti for the conductor trophy.

BBC: Opera magazine to hold inaugural awards in London

For the fourth Opera Annex show, the BLO co-commissioned "Clemency, " by the Scottish composer James MacMillan, with the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera and the Britten Sinfonia, and presented its North American premiere at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter on Boston's South Side last week.

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