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Beautiful Music NOW - Valerie Eickhoff

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Mezzo-soprano Valerie Eickhoff was recently named Young Talent of the Year by Germany’s classical music award organization, Opus Klassik. The singer's other accomplishments include being a finalist in the 2023 Paris Opera Competition, and today's Beautiful Music features her singing Dopo notte, atra e funesta” from George Frideric Handel’s opera ARIODANTE. The performance took place at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, France.

Suzanne Bona is the host and executive producer of Sunday Baroque, a nationally syndicated weekly radio show of Baroque and early music which she originated on WSHU in 1987.