Louis Andriessen's stagework Theatre of the World—recorded live during the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2016 world premiere performances with conductor Reinbert de Leeuw and director Pierre Audi—has been nominated for a BBC Music Magazine Award in the Opera category. A jury of expert critics selected this year's nominees across seven categories from over 200 longlisted recordings reviewed in 2017 by BBC Music Magazine. The public vote is now open at the magazine's website, classical-music.com. All UK voters will be entered into a draw to win copies of the nominations.

Oliver Condy, editor of BBC Music Magazine, says: "This year's nominations are breathtaking, not only in their standards of recording and performance, but in their wide-reaching scope."

Theatre of the World was released on Nonesuch Records in September. The nine-scene multi-media work features a libretto by Helmut Krausser and is a far-ranging exploration of the seventeenth-century German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher.

BBC Music Magazine gave the album a perfect five stars for both performance and recording. "Since bursting onto the world stage in the 1970s with an ebulliently aggressive, Marx- and bebop-inspired minimalism," wrote reviewer Steph Power, "his palette has further expanded to embrace a cornucopia of styles; often within the same piece, but seamlessly integrated and focused like a laser on profound questions of humanity."

The winners of the BBC Music Magazine Awards will be announced at a ceremony at Kings Place, London, on April 5.