Taking both the $5,000 second prize and the $1,000 Audience Choice Award was James J. McKee, a 24-year-old baritone currently studying at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Jamie Barton, 25 years old and a student at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, won the $3,000 third prize. Each of the remaining five finalists took home $1,000.
Among previous winners of the McCollum Competition are sopranos Mary Dunleavy and Ana Mar‹a Mart‹nez and mezzo Margaret Lattimore.
Composer John Adams and theatre director Lileana Blain-Cruz retells the story of the Nativity, through the lens of Latin America.
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Lileana Blain-Cruz directs the new production, opening April 23.
The Cuban-born composer is this season's Debs Composer's Chair.
The cast is led by Bryonha Marie and Nathan Gunn, with Tony winner Ted Sperling at the baton.
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