The casual opera lover, some one like me, finds it exceedingly hard to flip in and out of the genre, I get lost in it. So I have found the Metropolitan Opera’s Opera News Online very useful for staying on top of the classical music zeitgeist. The November issue includes the 2009 Opera News Awards and is worth checking out if only for that.
Here is the url: http://operanews.addr2.com/view/1884120/a65bce/