The Atlanta Opera has named Dina Pruzhansky and Hai-Ting Chinn the winners of the 96-Hour Opera Festival competition.

The winning piece was the duo’s “Rose, Tree (Rosenbaum and Li),” an opera scene set in 1967 that explores the dissolution of cultural boundaries between a Jewish Holocaust survivor and an American-born Chinese woman as they support their respective children’s interracial relationship.

Pruzhansky and Chinn shared a $10,000 Antinori Foundation Grand Prize and will now be commissioned by The Atlanta Opera to write a full chamber opera from their competition-winning proof of concept.

All other finalists were given a $1,000 honorarium.

The winners were selected from amongst five new 10-minute opera scenes, each rehearsed over four days by teams of composers and librettists. This year’s festival also featured the premiere of the 2023 competition-winning opera “Steele Roots.”

This year’s jury included Ricky Ian Gordon, Tazewell Thompson, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Tinashe Kajese-Bolden, and Tomer Zvulun.

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