The

Music Critics Association of North America The Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA) is a society of music critics of classical music in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1956, the MCANA is a member of the National Music Council and both publishes an annual newsletter ...

gives an Award for Best New Opera annually to given to a composer and

librettist A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major litu ...

. 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.""New Opera Award Goes to Mazzoli, Vavrek for ''Waves''"
by John Fleming, ''Classical Voice North America'', June 20, 2017

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