New York City Opera is proud to announce Angels in America has received the Austrian Musical Theater Award for Best Contemporary Musical Theater Production for its co-production with The Salzburger Landestheater. The eleventh annual Austrian Music Theater Awards ceremony took place in Vienna City Hall, honoring exceptional works of music, theater, and musical theater, from across Austria.

Based on the play by Tony Kushner, Péter Eötvös’s Angels in America is an operatic adaptation of the groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama that, since its 2004 premiere at Châtelet, has been performed all over the United States and internationally. “Mr. Eötvös’s success outstrips that of most American composers in his ability to fit music to the flow of American English,” the New York Times said of the contemporary opera. In 2017, Angels in America debuted with New York City Opera at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, where it was directed by Sam Helfrich directs, with Pacien Mazzagatti conducting.