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COT Season Preview with Lidiya Yankovskaya

September 11, 2021, 4:30 pm

Portrait of Lidiya Yankovskaya in black suit, fall landscape background

Lidiya Yankovskaya (Photo: Kate Lemmon)

This week, Lidiya Yankovskaya, the Staley Music Director of Chicago Opera Theater, is Oliver’s guest. COT’s 2021-22 season boasts some exciting firsts: Jamie Barton in her role debut as Carmen opposite Stephanie Blythe in the tenor role of Don José; a world premiere opera by Errollyn Wallen; and the Chicago premiere of Mark Adamo’s Becoming Santa Claus. Yankovskaya curates a playlist of artists and composers who will be featured at COT.

Playlist

Playlist to include works by Mark Adamo, Shawn Okpebholo, & Errollyn Wallen; and performances by Jamie Barton and Stephanie Blythe.

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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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COT Season Preview with Lidiya Yankovskaya

Playlist