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American Academy of Arts and Letters Announces 2023 Awards
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the winners of the 2023 Charles Ives Opera Prize and the Marc Blitzstein Memorial Awards. This year the $50,000 Charles Ives Opera Prize was awarded to “Artemisia” by composer Laura Elise Schwendinger and librettist Ginger Strand. The opera is based on the life of 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi and premiered at {…}