Lazarus Award To the San Diego Opera. The company was left for dead in March when it decided to shut down, citing “an insurmountable financial hurdle.” But it was revived in a somewhat slimmed-down form after Californians clamored to save the opera, and put their money where their mouths were with a successful crowdfunding campaign.

Ozymandias Award To Avery Fisher Hall, where the heirs of Avery Fisher have reached a settlement agreeing to let the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center rename the building for a new large donor who helps pay for the extensive and much-needed renovations being planned for the unprepossessing concert hall.

Image Kristine Opolais in “Madama Butterfly” at the Met. Credit... Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera

Upbeat Award To the Seattle Symphony, which brought John Luther Adams’s “Become Ocean,” which it commissioned, to Carnegie Hall just after it won a Pulitzer Prize, and then mixed things up with a viral video featuring Sir Mix-A-Lot performing “Baby Got Back.”