First edition of the Gerhard Schedl Award for musical theatre supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation

The Neue Oper Wien, Musikverlag Doblinger and the BNP Paribas Foundation have decided to create an international competition which is directed at composer-librettist teams. The goal is the creation of a full-length contemporary opera work for the stage in German, English or French.

The award consists in a cash prize in the amount of 25,000 euros from the BNP Paribas Foundation, a première by Neue Oper Wien in 2011, and the work's publication by Musikverlag Doblinger.

Gerhard Schedl (1957-2000) was one of the greatest Austrian composers of musical theatre works: he knew intimately the needs and possibilities of the not-so-simple task of combining theatre and music.

Read the press kit about the Gerhard Schedl Award.