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Replete with Rigolettos

July 24, 2021, 4:30 pm

Baritone Petro Pryymak in classic Rigoletto jester costume.

Petro Pryymak as Riigoletto. Roxolana Pryymak, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

This week, great moments from Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto, a benchmark baritone role. Oliver will play different versions of one passage from the Act I Gilda-Rigoletto duet; and Rigoletto’s aria “Cortigiani.”

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Meet the Host

Oliver Camacho joined the announcer team in February of 2019. He is the co-host and creative consultant of Opera Box Score and co-host of OperaNow! Podcast. A proud graduate of Chicago’s Lane Technical High School, where he was mentored by George Rico, Oliver went on to study music at Northwestern University, and historically informed performance practice at the Amherst Early Music Festival and Early Music Vancouver. His musical passions are opera, art song, choral music, Early Music, and discovering new composers as well as those who have been previously marginalized or disenfranchised. In January of 2021, Oliver began hosting Listening to Singers, and in October of the same year, he was named WFMT’s Music Director.

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Replete with Rigolettos

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