Swan Song for the Baltimore Opera
Monday, May 04 2009
Swan Song for the Baltimore Opera
Grant Striegel >>More
Earlier this year, The Baltimore Opera Company slipped from Chapter Eleven bankruptcy into Chapter Seven. That means it's closed and all that's left of a half-century of music and theater is being auctioned off. It's the same around the country. Opera companies from Connecticut to California are canceling performances and questioning what's ahead.
For Grant Striegel the end of the Baltimore Opera Company is more than the passing of an era. He says it leaves a cultural void. Grant's own passion for opera began when he was 11. From the time he saw the singers on stage he was hooked. But Grant also had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to know a legend, soprano Rosa Ponselle. Grant joins Dick to talk about the past and the future of opera.
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365 Chance Encounters
Maria Scileppi
While riding in a cab to a party with strangers, Maria Scileppi had an idea. She decided to start interviewing one person a day for an entire year. During that year, she crossed paths with 365 people, including an actor from a famous television show and a veteran of the war in Iraq. Maria talks to Dick about her new fearlessness in approaching strangers and the surprise she has planned for the exhibition of her project.
- Find out more about Maria's project
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