Dan Polletta spotlights the young stars of The Cleveland Institute Music's opera department production of Richard Strauss's classic Ariadne auf Naxos. Plus we share an archive interview with Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winner for fiction 2007 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie as we preview the Cuyahoga County Public Library's monthly Anisfield-Wolf Book Clubfeaturing Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Plus ideastream's® Eric Wellman shows us another side of NPRnewsman Paul Brown, prior to his appearance at Lake Erie College.