April 20, 2023: Host Christa Wessel welcomes baritone Harry Baechtel and the Portland State University Opera to the Roger O. Doyle performance studio. PSU Opera will preview their upcoming production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and PSU professor Harry Baechtel will sing several unpublished lieder (songs) by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, and more. Tune in Thursday at 3:00 PM PT.
Opera in the UK is in crisis. In the latest round of government funding allocated by The Arts Council England (ACE), many of the country’s largest opera institutions have had their budgets slashed. Receiving sufficient funding is crucial to the running of arts institutions in the UK, and ACE has faced immediate backlash since a pattern was identified in the most recent allocations towards the end of last year.
The Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra conductor discusses the two unprecedented programs of music by Black composers he'll lead in March with the New York Philharmonic.