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Cherry Duke, a professor in the department of music at the University of Texas at El Paso, received a University of Texas System Board of Regents’ 2023 Outstanding Teaching Award.

The first-rate cast was not only a testament to the singers themselves but also showed the consistently good taste in the Florentine’s recent seasons.

Another week, another attempt to solve the Purcell problem. There’s a problem? Well, yes, if you consider that a composer universally agreed (on the strength of Dido and Aeneas) to be a great musical dramatist left only one stageable opera (that’d be Dido and Aeneas), but hour upon hour of theatre music that’s effectively unperformable

Larger than life art, a world premiere opera, and much more make this week's list of best bets.

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Community calendar events for listings in Napa, St. Helena, Calistoga, Yountville, American Canyon and greater Napa County.

Heres whats happening around Helenas arts and entertainment scene.

On Thursday's show: We preview tonight's mayoral debate and continue our series of election interviews with Robert Gallegos, who’s one of the candidates running.

THURSDAY

Decter Wright, who has represented District 7 since 2018, was a professional opera singer before relocating to Tulsa with her husband.