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Chicago Lyric Opera Director to Conduct La Boheme in Aspen August 19

Aspen Public Radio | By Chris Mohr
Published August 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM MDT
Enrique and Chris at the APR studio.
Enrique and Chris at the APR studio.

Enrique Mazzola was only seven years old when he sang in La Boheme as part of the children's chorus at La Scala in Milan. He thought the theatrical candy vendors were really there to give him candy! Now he's in Aspen preparing to conduct Puccini's most beloved opera August 19 at the Klein Music Tent. He dropped by APR to chat with Chris Mohr about the upcoming production, and to ask if he could please take an Aspen Public Radio coffee cup home with him!
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Chris Mohr
Classical music reporter Chris Mohr has loved classical music since he was twelve. “And I owe it all to radio,” Chris explains. “I grew up in a farm town east of Cleveland. One day I turned on the local classical radio station. They were playing Vivaldi, and it was like the gates of heaven opened up to me!" Chris is also a composer, and is working on a 53-note-to-the-octave oratorio, "Melodies of the Shoreless Sea." This is his 11th summer working for Aspen Public Radio.
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