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Actor Brian Dennehy died last week at the age of 81. You’ll hear a previous interview. Also, Kevin Whitehead pays tribute to jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz who died last week at the age of 92. And you’ll hear a joyful concert and interview with singer Catherine Russell, whose repertoire includes early jazz and blues songs. Join us.
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Fresh Air
May 12, 2021
Actor Jean Smart on Fresh Air – Wednesday at 4pm
On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks with Jean Smart. In the new series Hacks, she plays a Vegas comic whose career is in decline, and reluctantly teams up with a young woman comic who was canceled on social media. Smart also co-stars in the new HBO series Mare of Eastown. She’s co-starred in…
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Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has since appeared in opera, concert, recital, film, and on Broadway. In June 2024, he began his tenure as the General Director and President of Opera Philadelphia.
He has appeared with many of the world’s leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Opera National de Paris, English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Dallas Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Spoleto Festival USA, Glimmerglass Festival (where he served as the 2023 Artist in Residence), and Finnish National Opera.
In concert he has sung with the New York Philharmonic (where he was named The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence for the 2021-22 season), The Cleveland Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble, Boston Baroque, Berlin Philharmonic, NDR at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, and the London Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has also been presented in recital in Vancouver, Princeton University Concerts, Duke Performances, and at the Morgan Library in New York. He has performed at a wide-ranging variety of venues incl