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Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera

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The Music Critics Association of America (MCANA) Award for Best New Opera is an annual prize given to a composer and librettist.

In giving the inaugural award in 2017, the association stated that the prize "which recognizes musical and theatrical excellence, will be given annually to a fully staged work that received its world premiere in the preceding calendar year."[1]

Recipients

Year Opera Composer and librettist Finalists Ref.
2017 Breaking the Waves Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek [2]
2018 The Wake World David Hertzberg [3]
2019 prism Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins [4]
2020 Blue Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson [5]

References