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Kennedy Center News is now available to read online! The January-February issue features the return of Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative with the world premiere of the hour-long opera Taking Up Serpents by Kamala Sankaram and Jerre Dye, as well as the premieres of three new 20-minute operas 75 Miles (Matt Boehler, composer; Laura Barati, librettist), Relapse (Molly Joyce, composer; James Kennedy, librettist), and Pepito (Nick Benavides, composer; Marella Martin Koch, librettist); a guided rehearsal of WNO's upcoming production of Eugene Onegin; plus Renée Fleming in an all-Schubert program with the National Symphony Orchestra; and much more!
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