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Marty Sohl/Met OperaGabriela Lena Frank's first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead to be reunited with her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera. -
Adrienn Szabo/StarzSharpe played a newly rich tech bro on vacation in The White Lotus. Now he's starring as Mozart, a musical genius who struggles to "read the room" in a new limited TV series. -
Jenna DooleyWelcome to Poetically Yours. Poetically Yours highlights poems by northern Illinois poets. This week’s poet is Danyla Nash. -
Mariah TaugerThe composer created her own symphonic fable that weaves Andean cosmology with the natural world. -
Welcome to Poetically Yours. Poetically Yours showcases poems by northern Illinois poets. Today's poet is Ty Yeager. -
Paul Marotta/Getty ImagesThomas led the San Francisco Symphony from 1995 to 2020, helping to establish its reputation as a world-class orchestra. In 2021, he was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain cancer.
