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Western Illinois University alumna Margaret Gawrysiak has been named as the understudy for the role of "Auntie," in a fall production of "Peter Grimes," with the Metropolitan Opera.
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Print Making his San Diego Opera debut in the upcoming drive-in production of “The Barber of Seville” is bass singer Peixin Chen. Chen, who plays Don Basilio, is a rising opera talent from China who recently graduated from the Houston Grand Opera Studio and was part of San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Merola Program. The singer was born in Inner Mongolia, but went to college in Beijing. That’s where he’s been for much of the past year due to the pandemic. When he returns to live performances, it will be under unique circumstances — singing for people in their cars, and using amp...