Ann Morrison was Mary Flynn in the original 1981 production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, directed by Harold Prince, for which she won the 1982 Theatre World Award. More than 40 years later she remains remember

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The Met: Live in HD is a series of live opera performances transmitted to selected venues, primarily movie theaters around the world, in high-definition video, via satellite from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The first transmission w

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Mar 4th, 2024 1h 12m

Michael Stephen Brown has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers.” His artistry is shaped by his creative voice as a pianist and composer, praised for his “fearless pe

Robert Neu

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Robert Neu is known for his highly theatrical and musically sensitive work He has directed over 100 productions of operas, musicals and plays throughout the country. Bob’s productions include everything from The Music Man to St. John Passion,

Richard Kogan, M.D.

Feb 2nd, 2024 1h 16m

Richard Kogan has a distinguished career as a psychiatrist and a concert pianist. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Artistic Director of the Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Program, he has been praised for

Justin Lucero

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Justin Lucero is artistic director of Theater Latté Da, in Minneapolis. In addition to nearly a dozen works directed for El Paso Opera, Justin enjoys a robust freelance directing career for professional and academic stages, including past work

John Demain

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Andrew Arceci

Dec 27th, 2023 1h 3m

Andrew Arceci has developed a varied career as performer, composer/arranger, and scholar. He performs regularly on the viola da gamba (viol), violone, and double bass throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. As viol soloist with orchestra,

Thomas Søndergärd

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What a pleasure it was talking to Danish conductor ThomasSondegard as he began his journey as music director of theMinnesota Orchestra. Bringing broad experience in bothorchestral and opera repertoires, he has been music director ofthe Royal Sc

D. T. Max

Nov 26th, 2023 56m 32s

D. T. Max first contributed to the New Yorker in 1997 and has been a staff writer since 2010. He is the author of “The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery,” a cultural and scientific study of fatal familial insomnia disease; “Every Lo

Dessa

Nov 15th, 2023 30m 22s

Singer, rapper, and writer, Dessa has made a career of bucking genres and defying expectations—her résumé as a musician includes performances at Lollapalooza and Glastonbury, co-compositions for 100-voice choir, performances with the Minnesota

Lee Mills

Nov 1st, 2023 1h 16m

Lee Mills is internationally recognized as a passionate, multifaceted and energetic conductor. In naming Mills as the ‘New Artist of the Month’ for March 2022, Musical America praised his ‘omnivorous musical temperament eager to try out highly

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Since 2015, the Beo String Quartet has created a niche for itself as a daring, genre-defying ensemble. Trained in the classical tradition, violinists Jason Neukom and Andrew Giordano, violist Sean Neukom, and cellist Ryan Ash also know their

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With “a prodigious clarity of diction” (Scherzo) and “a moving tendresse” (BBC Music Magazine), Esther Yoo has been described as “the model of a violin soloist in the modern age.” (The Strad). In 2010, she became the youngest prizewinner of the

Sonja Frisell

Sep 27th, 2023 1h 19m

Now-retired opera stage director Sonja Frisell capped her astounding career in 2017, when at age 80 in Muscat, Oman, with the touring Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro, she restaged Jean Pierre-Ponnelle’s 1987 production of a little known one-

Paul Jacobs

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Paul Jacobs is chair of the organ department at Juilliard School. An extraordinarily expressive performer and an intensely intelligent musician, Grammy Award-winning organist, he is helping the “King of Instruments” retake its rightful place i

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Aug 24th, 2023 1h 13m

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Anna Clyne was described as “fearless” by NPR. After sampling her works you'll know why. She is one of the most in-demand composers today, working with orchestras, choreographers, filmmakers, and visual artists around the world. Anna was name

Mattias Schulstad

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Based in Brooklyn, New York and Minneapolis, Minnesota, David has performed off-broadway and around the country at American Conservatory Theatre, The Guthrie, Baltimore Center Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Florida Repertory Theatre, Theatre L

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