
The BBC Radio 3 Listeners Award goes to a singer with a radiant voice and a wonderfully warm stage personality. Listeners heard her in a solo recital of Berg,Strauss, Britten and Daugherty from the Wigmore Hall; in Poulenc's Stabat Mater from the Edinburgh Festival and most notably, as an unforgettable Brunhilde in the Proms performance of Wagner's Götterdämmerung. The Award goes to the soprano Christine Brewer.