Tom Huizenga - Here at NPR Music, we don't impose an awful lot of limits when it comes to hosting musicians and their instruments behind (and occasionally on top of) Bob Boilen's desk. We've shoehorned in concert organs and 11-piece go-go bands, and hosted harp players, pipa virtuosos and jazz brass combos, but never opera singers — until now.
Soprano
Joyce El-Khoury and tenor
Brian Jagde are young, fresh-faced opera singers at the dawn of promising careers. El-Khoury has already appeared at New York's Metropolitan Opera, while Jagde has sung roles in smaller houses here and in Europe.
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