Opera
- Mark Adamo – Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess
- John Coolidge Adams – Doctor Atomic
- Philippe Boesmans – Julie
- Richard Danielpour – Margaret Garner
- Matthew Dewey – The Death of Chatterton
- Lorenzo Ferrero – La conquista
- Nicholas Lens – The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy: Amor Aeternus – Hymns of Love
- Lorin Maazel – 1984
- Roger Waters – Ça Ira
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