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Will Liverman: The Baritone Transforming Opera & Championing a Bold New Legacy
Classical Post, February 2025
Players 50 2025: Opera
Newcity Stage, January 2025
Conversation with Will Liverman
WSHU, September 2024
Will Liverman Talks Working on ‘Elijah Reimagined,’ Diversity in Classical Music
Washington Informer, June 2024
Grammy Award-winner to perform Dayton Opera Star Recital at Schuster Center
Dayton Daily News, May 2024
Baritone Will Liverman and pianist Jonathan King highlight women composers
Your Classical, April 2024
Sampling Art Of Song, Will Liverman Leaves Final Lyric To His Mom
Classical Voice North America, April 2024
Will Liverman: The Future of Opera
Vocal Arts with Peter Barber, April 2024
Baritone Will Liverman celebrates women in new album ‘Show Me The Way’
CPR Classical, March 2024
Will Liverman and Jonathan King – Show Me the Way
WQED, March 2024
8 Tracks: Music for movies of the mind
NPR, March 2024
Liverman's 'Show Me The Way' showcases women's contributions to classical music
NPR, March 2024
Will Liverman Makes His Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Debut with Brahms’ 'A German Requiem'
Cincinnati City Beat, January 2024
Best Chicago theater of 2023: From ‘Tommy’ to soul opera, our top 10 shows chosen from many
Chicago Tribune, December 2023
The best of classical music in 2023
Washington Post, December 2023
Curate 757: Will Liverman
WHRO, December 2023
Malcolm X arrives — finally — at New York's Metropolitan Opera
NPR, November 2023
The groundbreaking story of Malcolm X premieres at the Metropolitan Opera
ABC7, November 2023
Will Liverman performs America The Beautiful & Lift Every Voice and Sing | 2023 US Open
ESPN, September 2023
Baritone Will Liverman at Lincoln Center
WNYC, February 2023
Riffing on Rossini, Lyric Opera’s ‘Factotum’ started as a South Side Chicago comic opera. But its creators had bigger ideas.
Chicago Tribune, February 2023
Opera Star Will Liverman Celebrates Langston Hughes' Birthday In Song
Ebony, February 2023
The Barber of Chicago
Chicago Magazine, February 2023
Chicago’s South Side is heart — and soul — of Lyric Opera’s ‘Factotum’
Chicago Sun-Times, January 2023
In Chicago, ‘Opera Can Be Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Can Be Opera’
The New York Times, January 2023
Will Liverman is a mesmerizing opera star from Virginia Beach. Next? He could win a Grammy.
The Virginian-Pilot, January 2023
Terence Blanchard returns to opera with ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’
Chicago Sun-Times, March 2022
“Fire Shut Up in My Bones” Debuts at Lyric Opera
Chicago Defender, March 2022
After making history as first opera by a Black composer at the Met, ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ comes to Lyric Opera
Chicago Tribune, March 2022
Coming Home: How Fire Shut Up Will Liverman’s Bones
New City Stage, March 2022
Will Liverman: Not Waiting for Permission
Classical Singer, February 2022
Grammy Award Nominee Will Liverman Discusses the New Era of American Opera, Taking Action, & Not Waiting for Permission!
OnStage Blog, December 2021
Year In Review – Our Top Classical Albums for 2021
The Classical Review, December 2021
WRTI’s Best of 2021
WRTI, December 2021
Best of 2021: OperaWire’s Staff on the Best Performances of the Year
OperaWire, December 2021
Best of 2021: OperaWire’s Top 11 Singers of 2021
OperaWire, December 2021
NPR Music 2021 Staff Picks: Tom Huizenga
NPR, December 2021
Fleeing the Gilded Cage: The COVID shutdown stalled careers. For some opera singers, it also opened doors
NPR, December 2021
Best Of 2021: OperaWire’s Top 10 Rising Stars Of 2021
Operawire, December 2021
Terence Blanchard's opera: "Fire Shut Up in My Bones"
CBS Sunday Morning, November 2021
Terence Blanchard Makes History At The Metropolitan Opera
NPR, September 2021
The Met Opera Opens with “Fire Shut Up in My Bones”
The New Yorker, September 2021
A Baritone Digs Deep: Will Liverman steps into the opera world’s most visible spot — the Met’s opening-night lead — in Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Vulture - New York Magazine, September 2021
We Should Tell Stories Of Black Joy: Will Liverman Talks With Lara Downes
NPR, July 2021
How Black Joy Broke Barriers Through Opera — Just In Time For Juneteenth
St Louis Public Radio, June 2021
Chicago Baritone Will Liverman Highlights Black Composers On New Album
WBEZ Chicago, April 2021
Building That Foundation - An Interview with Baritone Will Liverman
VAN Magazine, April 2021
Transforming ‘The Barber of Seville’ to a Black-Owned Barbershop in ‘The Factotum’
Observer, March 2021
The Best Music Of February: NPR Staff Picks
NPR, March 2021
Will Liverman and Shawn Okpebholo Speak Truth To Power with "Dreams of a New Day"
WOUT, March 2021
3 New Albums Retell the History of Black Composers
The New York Times, February 2021
Will Liverman 'Dreams Of A New Day' For Black Composers
NPR, February 2021
New Classical Tracks: Will Liverman makes singing a reality
American Public Media, February 2021
Dreams of a New Day
CAP Radio, February 2021
Dreams Of A New Day – Songs by Black Composers sung by Will Liverman, Baritone on Staccato
KMFA, January 2021
Will Liverman To Make Metropolitan Opera History In ‘The Magic Flute’
OperaWire, November 2019
Singer shows opera is for everyone
The Philadelphia Tribune, April 2019
Interview: How The Governor’s School Of The Arts Develops New Opera Stars & Audiences
OperaWire, January 2019
Spotlight on Will Liverman
Schmopera, July 2016
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