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Soprano Renée Fleming and banjo player Béla Fleck have recorded an album together that celebrates Appalachian folk music, The Fiddle and the Drum.
Madison Thorn
NPR Classical
A star soprano and a banjo virtuoso lean into American folk tunes
Michel Martin, Olivia Hampton
Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck's joint project, which took more than 20 years to finalize, sees them collaborate with other folk musicians and singers.
When John Cage composed an opera commemorating the American bicentennial audiences walked out. Now, it's being reinterpreted by new artists in a Detroit Opera production. Above, Brianna J. Robinson, left, Travis Leon Williams, Mia Mandineau and Selena Kearney rehearse for Apartment House 1776 which runs May 21 to 24.
Austin T. Richey
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Detroit Opera
NPR News
An unlikely opera for America's birthday summons dissonance and harmony
Neda Ulaby
Isabel Leonard as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Carlos Álvarez as her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera perform in a scene from Gabriela Lena Frank's El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego at New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Marty Sohl
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Met Opera
NPR Classical
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera dream together again at Met Opera
Jeff Lunden
Will Sharpe plays Mozart in the Starz series Amadeus.
Adrienn Szabo
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Starz
NPR Classical
Will Sharpe imagines Mozart's day-to-day in 'Amadeus'
Ann Marie Baldonado
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