The list of participants and nominees for the Onegin-2022 opera award includes soloists of the Hvorostovsky Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Daria Ryabinko, the favourite with the Krasnoyarsk public, was nominated in the honorary category Prima Donna for her performing of Romeo in Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi premiered in December 2021. Other soloists of the opera company were also listed among the participants of the competition: Anna Avakyan (for the part of Juliet in the opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Alexandra Cherpakova in the Female Debut Part category (for the part of Lakme in Leo Delibes' eponymous opera), and Valentin Kolesnikov in the Male Debut Part category (for the part of Gerald in the opera Lakme).

The Onegin Opera Award ceremony will, for the first time, take place on the historical stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on November 20, 2022. 

This year, the Onegin Award Expert Council received 103 applications from theatres of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, Volgograd, Perm, Krasnodar, Samara, Astrakhan, Voronezh, Ryazan, Bashkiria, and the Komi Republic. 

This award has been given since 2016 and is considered the "Oscar of Opera” now. It gathers opera singers, directors, conductors, theatre managers, and other representatives of the opera art from all over Russia: from Karelia to Yakutia, from Astrakhan to Vladivostok. The brightest stars of the world opera are invited to take part in the ceremony. In 2022, these are Veronika Dzhioeva, Vasily Ladyuk, Sergei Romanovsky, Dmitri Ulyanov, and surely the current president of the Onegin Award, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, State Prize laureate Khibla Gerzmava.

For six years, more than 60 opera singers, directors, accompanists, artistic directors of theatres including representatives of the Krasnoyarsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, have become laureates the Onegin Award.

“Winning the Onegin Award or just getting into the shortlist of nominees is a big event for regional theatres. And not only for regional, but just as big for the metropolitan ones,” says the founder and Director General of the Award Igor Tarasov, “And for a singer, the status of the Onegin Award laureate is not an automatic guarantee of new lucrative contracts, though, but surely is a sign of success, a symbol of recognition, primarily among professionals. This is the sign of quality leading to career advancement.”