The Music Critics Association of North America gives an Award for Best New Opera annually to 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 North America during the preceding calendar year.""New Opera Award Goes to Mazzoli, Vavrek for Waves" by John Fleming, Classical Voice North America, June 20, 2017
Recipients YearOperaComposer and librettistFinalistsRef.2017 Breaking the Waves Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek Anatomy Theater – David Lang and Mark Dion Fellow Travelers – Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce2018 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 Sharon2019 prism Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins An American Soldier – Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang Proving Up – Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek"Reid, Perkins Win Opera Award For Profile In Trauma" by Kyle MacMillan, Classical Voice North America, July 24, 20192020 Blue Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson Fire Shut Up in My Bones – Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons prisoner of the state – David Lang"Blue is the opera on police violence that America needs to see, but can't by Michael Andor Brodeur, The Washington Post, June 17, 20202021 Sweet Land Du Yun, Raven Chacon, Douglas Kearney, Aja Couchois Duncan Eurydice – Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl2023 R.U.R. A Torrent of Light Nicole Lizée and Nicolas Billon n/a
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