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"Charlottesville Opera is really back," said Leanne P. Clement, general director of Charlottesville Opera.

Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye will be in DJ Ryan Wood's mix of old-school soul, funk and Motown greats.

Baroque and brand-new sounds share a stage at 10-day festival.

The "One Hundred & One More Please" dog-tail starts with beef bone broth and bites of roasted sweet potato.

Five singers perform decades of songs in "Putting It Together."

Fresh off of working with rocker Jesse Dayton and guitar icon Slash, Fish takes the stage of the Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville Friday.

Jordan Rock, Emma Willmann, Anthony DeVito and perennially popular host Funnyman Skiba are in the lineup for the Nov. 16 show.

"Often people have ended up loving most the piece they’d never heard of, and that element of surprise, of discovery, always makes me happy," festival co-founder Raphael Bell said.

“My plan was to end the series when I created the festival,” creator Ty Cooper said. “Supporters made it clear that ‘the festival is amazing, it’s great, but we don’t

The festivities begin Saturday and extend through Sept. 12.