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Colin Warren-Hicks is a features reporter, covering arts and entertainment and general assignment features. A North Carolina native, he graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill before earning a journalism degree from NYU. He loves story tips about extraordinary circumstances, eccentrics, has-beens, would-bes and never-wills. Send them his way!
What was once the Norfolk Municipal Auditorium is now where the Virginia Opera builds its sets. It is at once a piece of Norfolk history and a place where imagined worlds are now brought to life.
Claus Ihlemann and Robert Roman — who themselves have felt the ugliness of anti-gay bigotry — knew that Virginia Opera needed a hand to put on "Fellow Travelers."
Over the decades, WHRO has accumulated one of the largest known music collections in the state, perhaps on the East Coast, with more than 20,000 albums and CDs in its vast storage room. But the music it plays now is digitally archived. WHRO will give away its music collection.