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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: In a new opera about cults, a Chicagoan plays the lead
Description: A new opera that opens in Chicago this week throws out all the old conventions.
The Listeners is set in the modern-day, features a cult and puts a complicated, female character in the spotlight.
WBEZ’s Courtney Kueppers has more on the genre-busting show. And, what comes next for opera.
HOST: DIXON