National Opera Week, Grants for Women Composers, The Golden Dragon, The Life To Come, Scare Pair, The Nubian Word for Flowers: A Phantom Opera

LA Opera, Hubble Cantata, Eddie's Stone Song, Heartbeat Opera, Cantani Project, Guerilla Opera, Chrononhotonthologos.

Matthew Aucoin joins us in the studio to talk about "Crossing", his opera about the Civil War experiences of Walt Whitman, and we recap Opera Philadelphia's festival O17, Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theater, and "Norma" at the Metropolitan Opera.

Philadelphia Opera's festival O17, Interviews by Chuck Sachs with Viswa Subbaraman and Jarrett Ott.

Philadelphia Opera's festival O17, David B. Devan, Mark Cambpell, The Dream of the Red Chamber, Blank Out, San Francisco Opera Lab, As One, The Great God Pan.

Philadelphia Opera's festival O17, We Shall Not Be Moved, The passing of Brenda Lewis, LIZZIE, the Rock Opera, Borgia Infami, Six Twenty Outrageous, Gulliver's Travels, Fellow Travelers, Matthew Auction's Crossing.

Grindr, the opera, Two Yosemites, Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s The Ring of Polykrates, Michel van der Aa’s Sunken Garden, The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke and Mr. Hare, The Rosenbergs (An Opera), and National Opera Week 2017.

We have the most interesting conversation with David and R.B. about producing an opera at the Barnes Foundation, surrounded by an eclectic collection of world rebounded art, with a wondering audience, all part of Opera Philadelphia's festival O17, which runs September 14 - 24.

The Kronos Quartet: My Lai, Reponds at the Armory, On-Site Opera's Rhonda and the Fossil Hunt, American Lyric Theater announces Seven Artists selected for Composer-Librettist Development Program, Ross Crean's The Great God Pan on CD

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