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Interview: Christine Weidinger

This interview with TheClassicalStation.org follows Christine Weidinger from an unlikely beginning in folk singing and skepticism about opera to a major international operatic career. She recounts her training, her Met auditions win, her years at the Metropolitan Opera, and the major singers and mentors who shaped her artistic life.

Christine Weidinger
Operatic Soprano

Bob Chapman
Host @WCPE

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