WHPK-FM Airs & Streams Tenor Kenneth Tarver in Auber's Opera Comique 'Fra Diavolo' July 28

[Diavolo and Kenneth Tarver, Tenor]

Its website calls WHPK “a non-profit community radio station of the University of Chicago, broadcasting to Hyde Park and the South Side of Chicago for over 50 years.” Our friend Sergio Mims is an African American host of a classical music program on WHPK-FM. He sends this news:

“William hello! How are you doing? I wanted you and all your readers to know that this Tuesday (July 28) on my classical music radio show on WPHK-FM in Chicago I will be broadcasting a recording of Daniel Francois Esprit Auber's opera comique Fra Diavolo with the African American tenor Kenneth Tarver in the lead role and soprano Sumi Jo. A performance recorded earlier this year at the Opera Comique Theater in Paris in January 2009. My show is on WHPK-FM in Chicago (88.5 FM) and also can be heard on-line on http://www.whpk.org (12 noon – 3PM U.S. Central time).”

KennethTarver.com:
Kenneth Tarver is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Yale University School of Music. A Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions winner and former member of the Metropolitan Opera Young Artist Program, Tarver was also a member of the Staatstheater Stuttgart ensemble.

Kenneth Tarver has sung principal tenor roles for the Festival d'Art Lyrique d'Aix en Provence, the Edinburgh Festival, the Staatsoper Berlin, the Hamburgische Staatsoper, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Milano Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, the Semperoper Dresden, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Kenneth Tarver
African American Tenor
Auber's Opera Comique
Fra Diavolo
Recorded in Paris 2009
WHPK-FM Chicago