Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel is among those shortlisted for best male singer, alongside tenors Aleksandrs Antonenko, Piotr Beczala, Joseph Calleja, JonasKaufmann and bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni.
JonasKaufmann made Parsifal complicated and vivid, from the adolescent shrug with which he conveyed his initial lack of understanding to the pure, messianic authority of his final transformation.