Opera

Join guest host Christopher Purdy for a discussion about arts in Columbus. GuestsKorine Fujiwara, composer of “The Flood” Peggy Kriha Dye, Artistic…

Join All Sides Weekend guest host Christopher Purdy as we discuss the arts scene in Columbus.Guests: Mark Lomax II, drummer, composer, educatorAdam…

Harry Lawrence Freeman was arguably the most important African-American composer of opera working during the era of the Harlem Renaissance.The Cleveland…

The resourceful singer is unafraid to bring opera — and his high-flying top notes — to unlikely places, from sixth-grade classrooms to the offices of NPR.

It may be hard to imagine a composer being inspired by public hearings and court cases. But Lake Erie and its problems take center stage in a new oratorio from Cleveland composer Margaret Brouwer. Picture a stage full of people – choirs of children and adults, rows of musicians, 4 soloists, and a conductor all performing a piece of music. Here, the real star of Voice of the Lake is Lake Erie.

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Charles Wakefield Cadman's opera Ramala will be discussed and sung in a lecture-performance by musicologist Katie Graber and the artists from Ohio State…

Join guest host Christopher Purdy as he talks with a panel of experts about the latest in arts and culture around Columbus.Guests:Lisa Minken, producer,…

Soprano Maria Callas—controversial, temperamental, with a voice described alternately as "dazzling" and "catastrophic"—remains an enigma whose recordings…

Sept. 16 is the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas. Born in 1923, Callas was 53 years old when she died.She had not sung a fully staged opera…