Herbert-von Karajan-Award 2025: Meet the Laureates

Nadezhda Karyazina’s career highlights include Marfa in »Khovanshchina« with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Helsinki Festival and Baltic Sea Festival, Princess Clarisse in »The Love for Three Oranges« at Semperoper Dresden, Isabella in »L’italiana in Algeri« and the title role in »Orphée et Eurydice« at Opernhaus Zürich, Hannah in »The Passenger« at Teatro Real Madrid, Ino in »Semele« at Bayerische Staatsoper, Smeton in »Anna Bolena« at Palau de les Arts Valencia and Opernhaus Zürich and Federica in »Luisa Miller« at the Glyndebourne Festival.

As a former member of the Staatsoper Hamburg ensemble, Karyazina has appeared in roles such as Mistress Quickly in »Falstaff«, Rosina in »Il barbiere di Siviglia«, Olga in »Eugene Onegin«, Federica in »Luisa Miller«, Orlofsky in »Die Fledermaus«, Kontschakovna in »Prince Igor«, Pauline in »Pique Dame« and in Verdi’s »Messa da Requiem«.

Nadezhda Karyazina will make her debut at the 2025 Salzburg Easter Festival.

Born into a family of musicians, Maxim Emelyanychev studied piano and conducting in his native town, Nizhny-Novgorod, before joining the class of conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

In 2013, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the historically informed orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro, with which he has since toured the world. A year after he made his European debut as a guest conductor in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s »Don Giovanni« at the Maestranza Theatre in Sevilla. Since then Maxim Emelyanychev has regularly been invited by some of the most prestigious theatres and orchestras in Europe, the USA and Japan including the Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Berliner Philharmoniker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Köln WDR Orchestra.

Since 2019 he is the Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. They are regularly invited to perform at the Edinburgh International Festival and at the BBC Proms. Emelyanychev’s debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2022 led the orchestra to appoint him as its Principal Guest Conductor for three years from 2025/26.