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The composer of Breaking the Waves speaks candidly about equity in her field, the importance of role models and the unglamorous side of writing music every day.

The PROTOTYPE festival, now in its 10th year, presents new operas and music-theater works in smaller settings. "We were trying to create a black box opera movement," says co-founder Beth Morrison.

After a century, a collection of Japanese antiques has made its way from Kansas City back to a Christian girl’s school in Yokohama, Japan. Plus: Kansas native and opera star Joyce DiDonato is up for her fourth Grammy Award.

Join Classical KC for the 92nd season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts with host Debra Lew Harder. Listen Saturdays at noon for past and present performances from the Metropolitan Opera stage, starting with Kevin Puts' new opera 'The Hours,' starring Prairie Village, Kansas native Joyce DiDonato.

Kelli O'Hara, Renée Fleming, and Joyce DiDonato star in a new opera based on Michael Cunningham's book.

Don Henry was a 1930s college kid from Dodge City, Kansas, who left everything he knew to join the fight against fascism. His life moved one music professor to put the story down in song.

The influence can be traced back to the 1800s when opera companies and their star singers traveled from Italy to perform across the country.

One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps Anthony and Cleopatra from flying off the rails.

Cousins struggle with debts and may have to sell property long held by their family in a work created by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and composer Gregory Spears.

July 20 is National Moon Day, commemorating the day astronaut Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. Many composers have written about the moon and connect themes of love, nature and the soul to this celestial body. Explore those themes through these classical selections.

The U.S. singer says she won't perform at Verona's Arena this month because the theater recently mounted another opera that had performers in blackface.

Listen on Saturdays at noon for the WFMT Radio Network Opera Series.