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A Preview of Orlando with Haymarket Opera Company’s Chase Hopkins

October 9, 2021, 4:30 pm

Chase Hopkins (Photo: Randall Kahn)

This week, Chase Hopkins, General Director of Haymarket Opera Company, joins Oliver to preview the company’s presentation of Orlando. The 1733 masterpiece by George Frideric Handel is centered on a violent anti-hero who goes mad with jealousy, stretching the conventions of the High Baroque to create a true musical drama. Singing Orlando is the the leading exponent of the role — the internationally acclaimed countertenor Bejun Mehta.

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Playlist to include selections from Haymarket Opera Company’s production of Orlando featuring Bejun Mehta as Orlando, Emily Fons as Medoro, David Govertsen as Zoroastro, Kimberly Jones as Angelica, and Erica Schuller as Dorinda; with the Haymarket Opera Orchestra led by Craig Trompeter.

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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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