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Rossini's "Otello" Opens Opera Southwest's New Season

Fri. 10/26 10a:  A rarely-performed drama by Gioachino Rossini opens the 40th anniversary season of Opera Southwest.  Otello, based on Shakespeare's tragedy, gives three performances at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque:  October 28, November 2 and November 4.  Spencer Beckwith speaks with the Artistic Director of Opera Southwest, conductor Anthony Barrese.

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Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.