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Mohr interviews Peter Sellars during the 2024 Aspen Music Festival

Chris Mohr talks with opera director Peter Sellars during this interview. Sellars brought Matthew Aucoin's new opera "Music for New Bodies" to Aspen on July 1. He takes a deep dive into the meaning of an opera that weaves together subjects as diverse as cancer and the destruction of the ocean floor.

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 ninth summer working for Aspen Public Radio.