• The OPERA NEWS Awards, Honoring: Jonas Kaufmann Riccardo Muti Patricia Racette Kiri Te Kanawa Bryn Terfel• Romantic Drama: Wuthering Heights in Minnesota• Spirit Forces: NYCO Welcomes Séance on a Wet Afternoon• The Challenge of Conducting Il Trovatore• The Performance I Can't Forget: J.D. McClatchy• Sound Bites: Wendy Bryn Harmer• Farewell to Margaret Price
Metropolitan Opera Guild President Richard J. Miller, Jr., Carol Miller and Jonas Kaufmann | © Dario Acosta 2011
Ambassador James McLay, New Zealand's permanent representative to the United Nations, and Kiri Te Kanawa | © Dario Acosta 2011
Metropolitan Opera Guild Chairman Winthrop Rutherfurd, Jr. and Emily K. Rafferty, President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art | © Dario Acosta 2011
Tony Bechara, Joel Bell and Marife Hernandez | © Dario Acosta 2011
Sanford Fisher and Isanne Fisher | © Dario Acosta 2011
Addie Kurz, Richard J. Miller, Jr., Carol Miller and Theodore A. Kurz | © Dario Acosta 2011
Younghee Kim-Wait and Bryn Terfel | © Dario Acosta 2011
Bryn Terfel and Stephanie Blythe | © Dario Acosta 2011
Kiri Te Kanawa and John Fisher, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Welsh National Opera | © Dario Acosta 2011
Metropolitan Opera Radio host Margaret Juntwait, Laura R. Walker, President and Chief Executive Officer of New York Public Radio, Bert Wells | © Dario Acosta 2011
Ambassador James McLay and Bryn Terfel | © Dario Acosta 2011
Metropolitan Opera Guild President Richard J. Miller, Jr., Mercedes Bass and Peter Brown | © Dario Acosta 2011
Actor Michael Douglas and Metropolitan Opera Guild President Richard J. Miller, Jr. | © Dario Acosta 2011
Co-hosts Stephanie Blythe and Patti LuPone | © Dario Acosta 2011
Renata Scotto, the recipient of a 2006 OPERA NEWS Award, presented the Award to Patricia Racette | © Dario Acosta 2011
Patricia Racette and Renata Scotto | © Dario Acosta 2011
Bryn Terfel accepts his OPERA NEWS Award | © Dario Acosta 2011
Lyric Opera of Chicago Music Director Sir Andrew Davis presents an OPERA NEWS Award to Kiri Te Kanawa | © Dario Acosta 2011
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, who presented an OPERA NEWS Award to Maestro Riccardo Muti | © Dario Acosta 2011
Coppola and Riccardo Muti | © Dario Acosta 2011
Bryn Terfel, Dr. Thomas Patterson, Dr. Elizabeth Patterson — winner of the OPERA NEWS Awards Sweepstakes — and Kiri Te Kanawa | © Dario Acosta 2011
Playwright John Guare and Bryn Terfel | © Dario Acosta 2011
American soprano Barbara Cook and Jonas Kaufmann | © Dario Acosta 2011
The recipients of the Sixth Annual OPERA NEWS Awards: Bryn Terfel, Patricia Racette, Kiri Te Kanawa, Riccardo Muti and Jonas Kaufmann | © Dario Acosta 2011
Francis Ford Coppola, Sir Andrew Davis, Stephanie Blythe, Bryn Terfel, Patricia Racette, Kiri Te Kanawa, Riccardo Muti, Jonas Kaufmann, Patti LuPone and Barbara Cook | © Dario Acosta 2011
