Venera received the International Professional Music BraVo Award as the best female vocalist of the year.  Public success and appreciation of the audience is one of the main criteria for the judges of this prestigious award. Venera received the prize from the international tenor Vittorio Grigolo who called her "the most beautiful in the world" in Russian. Dame Hellen Mirren and John Travolta were amongst the guests. The ceremony took place on the historic stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.