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	Anatomy Theater – David Lang and Mark Dion Fellow Travelers – Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce	[2]
2018	The Wake World	David Hertzberg	Dinner at Eight – William Bolcom and Mark Campbell The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs – Mason Bates and Mark Campbell War of the Worlds – Annie Gosfield and Yuval Sharon	[3]
2019	prism	Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins	An American Soldier – Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang Proving Up – Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek	[4]
2020	Blue	Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson	Fire Shut Up in My Bones – Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons prisoner of the state – David Lang	[5]

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

External links

• Official website