Winners of the 2021 Kurt Weill Prizes:
Ebright, Ryan. “Doctor Atomic or: How John Adams Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sound Design,” published in Cambridge Opera Journal 31.1 (March 2019)
Magee, Jeffrey. “Whose Turn Is It? Where Gypsy’s Finale Came from, and Where it Went,” published in Studies in Musical Theatre 13.2 (June 2019)
Pistorius, Juliana. “Inhabiting Whiteness: The Eoan Group La traviata, 1956” published in Cambridge Opera Journal 31.1 (March 2019).
Past Prizes have generally recognized one book and one article per cycle. This year, after careful consideration, the Prize panel decided to award three article prizes and declined to award a book prize.
Titles first published in 2019 or 2020 were eligible for the 2021 Kurt Weill Prizes.