The Minnesota Orchestra, which just ended a bitter 16-month lockout and plans to get back to business next month, won the Grammy Award for “best orchestral performance” on Sunday for a recording of Sibelius symphonies with its former music director, Osmo Vanska.

The Grammy — for its recording of Sibelius’s first and fourth symphonies on BIS records — offered more cause for celebration in Minneapolis, but also raised questions about the orchestra’s future, given that Mr. Vanska resigned his post as music director during the lockout, and the next recording in the orchestra’s Sibelius cycle was indefinitely postponed. (Mr. Vanska plans to return to lead the orchestra in several Sibelius concerts in March.)

The Metropolitan Opera won the Grammy for “best opera recording” for the third year in a row, and for the third year in a row it was for a DVD recording.

This year the Met won for its DVD of Thomas Adès’s “The Tempest,” conducted by the composer and featuring Simon Keenlyside, Isabel Leonard, and the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus, released by Deutsche Grammophon. Last year, it won for its set of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle and the year before for John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic.”

The Minnesota recordings were made before the lockout, in sessions in May and June 2012. Michael Henson, the orchestra’s president, said in a statement that “I want to congratulate the Orchestra and Osmo on this outstanding honor and to offer my thanks to the many generous donors who have made possible the Orchestra’s recording projects.”

The orchestra’s musicians released a separate statement, expressing the hope that Mr. Vanska would return as music director.

Tony Ross, the orchestra’s principal cellist, said in the statement that the award “confirms where the musicians and our leader Osmo Vanska were as a symphony orchestra before the lockout,” adding that “this is also why we need him to return and carry on with the projects and partnership that have brought this orchestra acclaim worldwide.”