This week’s Interplay is a Conversation in Music with conductor **Lidiya Yankovskaya**, music director of Chicago Opera Theater, and a remarkable force in the production and presentation of music theater. A fiercely committed advocate for Russian masterpieces, operatic rarities, and new works, Lidiya is that rare person, warm, highly skilled and insightful, with a personal commitment to truth and free expression. It was inspiring talking to Maestra Lidiya Yankovskaya!

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