Guest vocalists Aline Kutan, Frédéric Antoun, and Keith Phares join the Columbus Symphony Chorus, Columbus Children's Choir, Columbus Symphony, and Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni for a one-night-only season opening performance of Carmina Burana, Carl Orff's brazen, evocative, and explosive musical showcase in Ohio Theatre on October 13.

The evening's program will also include Jennifer Higdon's colorful, accessible, and ethereal blue cathedral, one of the most-performed contemporary orchestral works of our time, written by America's most-performed living composer, columbus.broadwayworld.com reported.

Aline Kutan, a Canadian soprano of Armenian origin made her debut at the age of 18 in the role of Flora (The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten) with the Vancouver Opera. She studied at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and the Laval University of Quebec. Before starting her operatic career, Kutan toured for two years with in a Canadian production of Andrew Lloyd Weber's The Phantom of the Opera. In 1995, Kutan won the Metropolitan Opera Competition in New York.