John Adams, Marilyn Horne, et al. to Receive 2009 NEA Opera Honors

The five recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2009 Opera Honors, nominated by the public and chosen by an NEA-convened panel of opera experts, have been announced. Each honoree will receive a grant of $25,000 and will be celebrated at a program in Washington, D.C. on November 14.

This year’s winners are the legendary singer Marilyn Horne, composer John Adams (Doctor Atomic, Nixon in China), Julius Rudel, the veteran conductor of New York City Opera and the founding artistic director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; the director and librettist Frank Corsaro; and director Lotfi Mansouri, who introduced the use of supertitles in opera.

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