Win everything! Win everywhere! ft. Joshua Winograde
[@ 4 min] Alright, this week…We go Inside the Huddle with Joshua Winograde, one of opera’s leading administrators and now-director of opera studies at Rice’s Shepherd School of Music. Is this the interview that finally lands the OBS team a tenure track position in Opera Bantering?[@ 35 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’…sweating employment at the Kennedy Center, sweating a conductor at Caserta, and straight up sweating and fainting in Verona. GET YOUR VOICE HEARDoperaboxscore.comfacebook.com/obschi1operaboxscore.bsky.social
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Così Fan Fiction! ft. Jacquelyn Stucker
[@ 5 min] Alright, this week…Jacquelyn Stucker goes Inside the Huddle. The American soprano joins us from Santa Fe Opera where she is set to make her role debut as the Governess in The Turn of the Screw. Will the Governess overcome her biggest fear? (having to withstand being questioned by Oliver Camacho?) Stay tuned to find out![@ 35 min] And then..a message in the Listener Mailbag gets us thinking about what we should call our OBS fans...[@ 39 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’…are opera singers are being force fed Ozempic like a goose gavage? Also...no shirt, no shoes, no Scala! 'La' Scala, that is…GET YOUR VOICE HEARDoperaboxscore.comfacebook.com/obschi1operaboxscore.bsky.social
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Don't Make Me Sing! ft. Anthony León
[@ 4 min] Alright, this week…live (on tape) from Opera Theatre of St Louis, Anthony León goes Inside the Huddle to tell the story of his career acceleration after winning Operalia in 2022. The American born Cuban-Columbian tenor makes his debut with Lyric Opera of Chicago this season.[@ 38 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’…Bavarian State Opera joins the streaming community, and our Friends at OperaWire join the podcast community. GET YOUR VOICE HEARDoperaboxscore.comfacebook.com/obschi1operaboxscore.bsky.social
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Is it Opera or is it Cake? ft. Drew Minter
[@ 2 min] Alright, this week...former countertenor, now baritone and stage director Drew Minter goes Inside the Huddle to preview Haymarket Opera’s upcoming production of Vinci’s Artaserse.[@ 30 min] And then…in 'Chalk Talk,' new data suggests that the problem with opera attendance isn’t actually price after all! Nobody tell Anthony Roth Costanzo.[@ 46 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’…is it possible to have ethical AI usage in the arts? Opera Baltimore is on the case...GET YOUR VOICE HEARDoperaboxscore.comfacebook.com/obschi1operaboxscore.bsky.social
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Abso-Flute-Ly Amazing! ft. Benjamin Appl and Amanda Forsythe
[@ 3 min] Alright, this week, it's Monday Evening Quarterback on the 2025 Boston Early Music Festival, and we’ll be joined by Amanda Forsythe with a scoop on the 2027 centerpiece opera! We promise this is the only opera podcast talking Telemann.[@ 21 min] And then...the centenary of Dietrich Fischer Dieskau’s birth was last month, and we have a Free Throw from one of his last pupils, Benjamin Appl. Considered to be one of the all-time great Lieder interpreters, WE will consider Dieskau’s notable opera roles.[@ 43 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’…a decline in tourism coupled with the rise in deportations may be adversely affecting ticket sales at the Met...but that’s not stopping the Laffont competition from scouting in South America.GET YOUR VOICE HEARDoperaboxscore.comfacebook.com/obschi1operaboxscore.bsky.social