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The Best of America

July 4, 2026, 4:00 pm

Collage of five albums against a blue background with fireworks graphic. Clockwise from upper left: Leontyne Price - God Bless America; The Ballad of Baby Doe; Reginald Mobley - Because; Santa Fe Desert Chorale - The Road Home; Norman Treigle adn Phyllis Curtin in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah

Host Oliver Camacho shares favorite vocal music by American composers performed by favorite American artists such as Beverly Sills, Jessye Norman, Marilyn Horne, Reginald Mobley, Shirley Verrett, Robert Merrill, and The Boys Choir of Harlem.

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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