Image: NEA Opera Honorees

Description: National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia and the first class of NEA Opera Honorees: diva Leontyne Price, composer and librettist Carlisle Floyd, and impresario Richard Gaddes. Not included in the photo was the fourth honoree, conductor James Levine.
Title: NEA Opera Honorees
Credit: http://www.nea.gov/about/NEARTS/story.php?id=p09-Bravo&issue=2008_v5
Author: NEA photographer Russell Hirshon
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