Music Critics Association of North America Award for Best New Opera

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]
gollark: The first bit.
gollark: ... how did you draw *that* conclusion?
gollark: If a tiny unmeasurability error leads to a problem, just correct it at a larger scale, and we don't have that.
gollark: Well, that and "somehow influencing everything in the universe is quite hard".
gollark: I figure the main problem is "unclear/disagreed-upon definition of evil" more than anything else.

References
  1. "New Opera Award Goes to Mazzoli, Vavrek for Waves" by John Fleming, Classical Voice North America, June 20, 2017
  2. http://operawire.com/missy-mazzolis-breaking-the-waves-wins-historic-award/
  3. https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwopera/article/MCANAs-Second-Annual-Best-New-Opera-Award-Goes-To-David-Hertzbergs-The-Wake-World-20180410
  4. "Reid, Perkins Win Opera Award For Profile In Trauma" by Kyle MacMillan, Classical Voice North America, July 24, 2019
  5. "Blue is the opera on police violence that America needs to see, but can't by Michael Andor Brodeur, The Washington Post, June 17, 2020
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