It was a best-selling satire in 1927 - the classic novel by Sinclair Lewis about a drinking, brawling, womanizing football player - who becomes a suave evangelical preacher. And now, an opera. 'Elmer Gantry' has its Minnesota premier this weekend by the University of Minnesota Opera Theatre. Composer Robert Aldridge and librettist Herschel Garfein discuss the opera with Alison Young at noon today.
Business Magazine named him one of "40 Under 40" in 2009 for his accomplishments in arts management and now Allan Naplan will take the top job at the Minnesota Opera.
After nearly 30 years with the company, Minnesota Opera President and CEO Kevin Smith plans to step down.
The Schubert Club Bruce P. Carlson Student Scholarship Competition winners stopped by the MPR studios to give us a sample of their playing and chat about their aspirations for careers in music.
John Birge talks with James Valenti and Ellie Dehn from the Minnesota Opera's "La Boheme".
Chat with characters from Minnesota Opera's "Roberto Devereux."
A walk down Memory Lane with live concerts from the Ordway over the years. Listen on-line to some MPR favorites.
MPR's John Birge talks with John Fanning and Jean Stillwell who are the principals in Dominick Argento's "Casanova's Homecoming," a production of the Minnesota Opera.
The St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra calls its first concert of the 2009-2010 season "New Beginnings." It's the first concert of a new season, featuring the "New World" Symphony and the debut of the orchestra's new conductor, Andrew Altenbach.
For this Memorial Day, the premiere of Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Dominick Argento's memorial for his wife and muse of 51 years, soprano Carolyn Bailey Argento.
