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Mezzo Jamie Barton Receives $50K Richard Tucker Award

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Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton was just named the recipient of the 2015 Richard Tucker Award, a prestigious honor conferred annually and informally dubbed the “Heisman Trophy of Opera.”


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WFMT’s Top 10 Reads on World Book Day

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Today is World Book Day, a yearly event celebrated worldwide on April 23rd and organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright. Looking for a good read to celebrate World Book Day? We at WFMT have picked some of our favorite reads to share with you.


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Julia Wolfe Wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Music

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Judges described Wolfe’s work, Anthracite Fields, as a “powerful oratorio for chorus and sextet evoking Pennsylvania coal-mining life around the turn of the 20th Century.”


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Guggenheim Fellow Rudresh Mahanthappa On Creating Music that Defies Genre

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To label Manhathappa’s music simply as a fusion between Carnatic music and jazz would be reductive. If, anything, it represents “the beautiful multicultural state of affairs of the United States right now.”


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14 Facts About Haydn

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As we celebrate Haydn’s Birthday on the air, enjoy these fun facts about the composer from hosts and Haydn lovers Peter Van de Graaff and Carl Grapentine. Share your favorite facts about Haydn with us in the comments below. 1. Haydn was born the year George Washington was born (1732) and died the year Abraham Lincoln was born (1809). 2. …


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WFMT Host Peter van de Graaff Stars in Haymarket’s Don Quichotte

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“Telemann has written… some truly funny arias about Don Q.’s dreams of chivalry and Sancho’s donkey and mishaps”


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Lyric Opera of Chicago Announces 2016-17 Season

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Lyric Opera of Chicago announced its 2016-17 season, scheduled to include eight opera productions on its main stage, one opera production at the Harris Theater, and one musical.


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Tenor Bryan Hymel

January 13, 2015, 1:00 pm

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The winner of the 2013 Beverly Sills Artist Award, Bryan Hymel is one of the fastest-rising tenor stars in the world of opera. He is accompanied by Craig Terry on the piano.

  • “O Paradis” from L’Africaine, by Giacomo Meyerbeer

  • An excerpt from Hérodiade, by Jules Massenet

  • “Be My Love,” by Bryan Hymel

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Philippe Quint, violin and Marta Aznavoorian, piano

January 8, 2015, 12:00 pm

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Grammy-nominated violinist Philippe Quint has performed with major orchestras throughout the world, starred in a major independent film called “Downtown Express,” and explored the music of Astor Piazzolla and Nuevo Tango with his band The Quint Quintet. He plays the magnificent 1708 “Ruby” Antonio Stradivari violin on loan to him through the Stradivari Society.

  • “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix,” by Camille Saint-Saëns
    Philippe Quint, violin

  • “It ain’t necessarily so,” by George Gershwin
    Philippe Quint, violin; Mary Aznavorian, piano