You know, I never saw operas growing up.

I think it's really important for people to just have the experience and be exposed to music and the arts, and I think this is a wonderful way to do that.

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Hi, I'm Amy Diaz de Villegas, and I produce Wfsu news coverage of the College of Music concerts and operas.

In about 2006, we partnered with the College of Music to do a production that ended up going national.

It was called Peanut Gallery, and I worked with a producer from new Jersey, and we went to all the rehearsals and we took notes and he read the score.

And during the actual production, I was in the truck working as the ad assistant director.

During the production, I was calling out, you know what camera was going to come next and what they were going to cover.

And I thought, you know what?

That would be great for us to do as a station.

Have somebody in charge of that and go over, you know, work with the college and go to the rehearsals and kind of make sure that we're getting the best of the College of Music.

And.

As we get closer to the concert, I meet with the directors and we set up a time for them to come in to the station and sit down and interview them about what the concert is going to be about.

We do a little piece for intermission, and during that process I kind of learn what you know, what's going to be going on in the concert if I haven't already seen the program.

So we can kind of sort of figure out where we're going to put our cameras.

If it's a concert with the piano, we try and get the camera right up on the keys, or we figure out, you know, is there going to be a soloist out front?

Which side, which angle do we want to see them better from?

We recently recorded Engelbert Humperdinck opera Hansel and Gretel.

So here's a clip.

You can see what it looks like.

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And I don't mean that.

Nice.

Yeah, I enjoy it.

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It's just makes me.

I feel it's important for everyone to have access to music in concerts and operas.

You know, everyone doesn't have a chance to get out to the concert hall and see it.

I never saw opera, you know?

I never saw operas growing up.

I think it's really important for people to just have the experience and be exposed to music and the arts, and I think this is a wonderful way to do that.

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Great thing.

I'd like it.

I really do enjoy doing the operas.

I just love the visual aspect of it and I love getting to go back.

It's the operas are really fun to edit because I get to see everything from all the different camera angles and, you know, pick which one I might like the best for different places.

I just, I enjoy watching the operas.

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