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No Listening to Singers | Preempted by Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

November 1, 2025, 4:00 pm

Colorful, verging on garish, production still from 2025 bayreuth Festival production of Die Meistersinger.

A dress rehearsal of Matthias David's production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg . (Photo: Enrico Nawrath/Bayreuth Festival)

Due to the length of the WFMT Opera Series presentation of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg from the 2025 Bayreuth Festival, there will be no Listening to Singers this week.

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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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No Listening to Singers | Preempted by Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg