GWSS, AMST, and CCST alum Kao Kalia Yang ’03 was interviewed by MPR for their Minnesota Now series in an episode titled “For the first time, a Hmong story heads for the opera.” In 2016, Yang wrote “The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father” and now, in 2023, that story is the first Hmong story to be adapted for the operatic stage by Minnesota Opera.