sentences:  In 1998 Racette was the recipient of the coveted Richard Tucker Award which is given annually by the Richard Tucker Music Foundation to an American-born opera singer on the threshold of a major national and international career.Some prior recipients of this award have been David Daniels (1997), Dwayne Croft (1996), Ruth Ann Swenson (1993), Deborah Voigt (1992), and Renée Fleming (1990).Racette continued to maintain an active relationship with the San Francisco Opera during the late 1990s up to the present day.