NEA Launches Opera Honors
"Yesterday the National Endowment for the Arts announced the four winners of the first annual NEA Opera Honors, the first new program of national arts awards since the Jazz Masters awards were established in 1982. The first opera honorees are the great soprano Leontyne Price, conductor James Levine... composer Carlisle Floyd and administrator Richard Gaddes." Washington Post 05/14/08

Posted May 14, 2008 06:29 AM