The Party More than 150 guests attended the elegant Tudor-themed affair, raising their goblets—and money—for the Washington National Opera’s new season. The People Members of the executive, judicial and diplomatic corps were out in force, including Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Best In Show WNO’s outgoing director of artistic operations, Christina Scheppelmann, took the stage as (a nonsinging) Queen Catherine of Aragon for the opera’s opening performance of Anna Bolena.