Host Kathy Lawton Brown speaks with the founder and Artistic Director of Union Avenue Opera, Scott Schoonover, about Opera Under the Big Top! The live, in-person performances of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann and Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Big Top in St. [...]
Composer Susan Kander recently sat down with host Tom Sudholt to discuss her critically acclaimed monodrama dwb (driving while black), with libretto by Roberta Gumbel, which was released on Albany Records on March 15, 2021. Called "un-missable" by The New York Observer [...]
Three new works were premiered at the 2021 Outdoor Festival Season for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. One of the operas in the "New Works, Bold Voices Lab" (an expansion of OTSL’s existing “New Works, Bold Voices” cycle, which supports [...]
Classic 107.3 host Tom Sudholt and soprano Patricia Racette, Artistic Director of Young Artist Programs at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, discuss Patricia directing and starring in Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine during the 2021 OTSL Outdoor Festival Season, as [...]
Soprano Mary Dunleavy is the featured performer in a house concert this Saturday, June 5th, benefitting Union Avenue Opera. Hear a conversation with Ms. Dunleavy and Classic 107.3 host Kathy Lawton Brown about the soprano's background and experiences performing [...]
Classic 107.3 host Tom Sudholt spoke with conductor Leonard Slatkin about the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis 2021 Outdoor Festival Season, which is underway now. Maestro Slatkin is conducting of two the season's works: Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini [...]
General Director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Andrew Jorgensen gives an overview of the 2021 OTSL Outdoor Festival Season to host Tom Sudholt. Tom says, "When I first heard about the game plan for this OTSL season, I [...]
Classic 107.3 CEO and GM John Nasukaluk Clare recently sat down with Marcela Manjarrez Hawn and Crystal Allen Dallas, leaders of the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Intermezzo Society, to talk about the upcoming event A Toast to Opera. The virtual event is a 45-minute happy hour filled with music and conversation, featuring two of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ Gerdine Young Artists and General Director Andrew Jorgensen. For more information about the event, email intermezzo@opera-stl.org.
Classic 107.3 host Kathy Lawton Brown talks with the General Director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Andrew Jorgensen, about OTSL's "Opera on the Go!" abridged production of The Pirates of Penzance, which will reach upwards of 6,000 schoolchildren and is available for streaming through February 6th. Plus, a spring break opera camp based on The Pirates of Penzance!
Host Tom Sudholt and Patricia Racette, Artistic Director of the Gerdine Young Artist's Program at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, discuss Songs for St. Louis: A Concert in the Commons, which airs Monday, November 16, at 7pm on Nine PBS and again on November 22 at 11am and November 26 at 7pm.
