The radio premiere of an Andrew Patner interview with Lyric Opera of Chicago General Director Anthony Freud on the topic of Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera The Passenger, which makes its Lyric Opera debut tomorrow night, February 24^th, a live broadcast you’ll hear on WFMT and wfmt.com at 7:15pm (CST).  The Passenger runs through March 15th at the Civic Opera House.

The interview was recorded November 7, 2014 at the Newberry Library as part of the 25th Anniversary Chicago Humanities Festival, “Journeys,” and was presented in partnership with WFMT.