Rising opera star from Edina comes home for 'A Holiday Special'
COVID and a Christmas special bring rising opera singer Liv Redpath home.
By Rob Hubbard
Special to the Star Tribune
December 18, 2020 — 10:22am
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Gretel got her.
Liv Redpath was an Edina eighth-grader when that fairy-tale character — who's seduced by a witch's giant gingerbread house — convinced her to become an opera singer. She sang the role at age 14 in a production of Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel" staged by Minnesota Opera's youth program, Project Opera.
"After I sang that Gretel, I was totally hooked," she said last week.