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| Date | Titre | Durée | |
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| 04 Feb 2022 | The Perfect American! | 00:55:25 | |
[@ 4 min] The OBS polyrhythmics induct a birthday boy into the OBS "Hall of Fame"… Here’s a hint: | |||
| 11 Feb 2022 | Broad Stripes and Bright Stars! ft. Scott Ramsay | 00:51:21 | |
[@ 4 min] Get ready for Super Bowl LVI happening this Sunday in L.A.! Tenor Scott Ramsay goes 'Inside the Huddle' with the OBS Pack-haters to talk about the highs and lows of singing the national anthem on the gridiron… | |||
| 18 Feb 2022 | The House Edge! ft. Mathilda Edge | 01:14:47 | |
[@ 6 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Mathilda Edge. The rising American lyric-dramatic soprano has already accepted a tenure-track position at Oberlin, just as her singing career is set to launch… | |||
| 25 Feb 2022 | Everyone’s First Opera is Carmen! ft. Daniela Candillari | 00:48:06 | |
[@ 5 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Daniela Candillari who was just named principal conductor of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. She talks about her very recent conducting debut at the Met on Aucoin’s “Eurydice” and geeks out with Oliver on... a Mozart piano concerto...?! | |||
| 04 Mar 2022 | Opera is Not Political? | 01:02:14 | |
There’s really only one thing on our collective minds right now. To give you some relief from the horrific news coming out of Ukraine, the OBS-ers talk about politics in opera. ‘Cause those two things go together like peanuts and Crackerjacks… | |||
| 11 Mar 2022 | The Five McVicars! | 00:50:03 | |
[@ 3 min] This week in ‘Chalk Talk’… The OBS critics take a look at the Metropolitan Opera’s recently announced ‘22-‘23 season, including 5 David McVicar shows, 4 new productions, 3 ‘Traviata’ casts, 2 Yoncheva role debuts, and a partridge in a pear tree… | |||
| 18 Mar 2022 | Also Sprach Arvo Pärt! | 00:44:26 | |
[@ 3 min] This week, in ‘Chalk Talk’... Is it that time of year already? With the Men’s NCAA March Madness tourney set, the OBS b-ballers create their own bracket to pick the winningest opera composer of the last 300 years… | |||
| 25 Mar 2022 | The Devil Wears Pravda! | 01:01:46 | |
[@ 4 min] This week… One of the original ‘Inside the Huddle’ guests returns. And this time the OBS team has proof! It’s Jake Heggie. For real. Jake Heggie. (Oliver, please make sure you are recording…) | |||
| 01 Apr 2022 | Handel Operas: The Final Four! | 01:04:11 | |
[@ 4 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’… It’s still March and the OBS ballers are still mad like Lucia, as they crown the OBS’s 2022 Winningest Composer of the last three hundred years… | |||
| 08 Apr 2022 | New Seasons, Same OBS! | 01:08:05 | |
[@ 3 min] This week in ‘Chalk Talk’… The season announcements are coming in faster than Anna Netrebko’s separation from Putin, and harder than Will Smith at an awards ceremony. The OBS Crazies talk you through all the season details you need to know… | |||
| 15 Apr 2022 | Panic-Casting 'Tosca'! | 00:54:46 | |
[@ 2 min] This week, a personal hero of Oliver’s is inducted into the OBS Hall of Fame. A few hints: he’s one of his generation’s pioneering Rossini singers, he’s from Queens, and Sir Georg Solti once told him that he has Mozart and Verdi in his throat… | |||
| 22 Apr 2022 | Valery Gergiev's Secret Milan Restaurant! | 00:43:12 | |
[@ 3 min] This week… In ‘Sportzando!’, Ashlee draws a straight line from opera houses to ESPN, via baseball. Trust the OBS bullpen: it works. | |||
| 29 Apr 2022 | Don’t Say Heldentenor! ft. Ian Koziara | 00:56:22 | |
[@ 4 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with tenor Ian Koziara to talk about performing “Fidelio” for the deaf, and about having a darker, lower tenor voice that works well in German repertoire… without saying the world “Held_______”... [@ 34 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… The Met’s “Lucia” is a flop, but director Simon Stone has already been rehired… | |||
| 06 May 2022 | Stage Director Smackdown! ft. Amy Hutchison | 00:59:04 | |
[@ 2 min] This week… The OBS skeleton crew go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with guest co-host and stage director Amy Hutchison to find out how she and her career survived when COVID hit Operaland… | |||
| 13 May 2022 | All-Star Break! | 00:46:26 | |
[@ 2 min] This week… It’s one of those ‘Best-of…’, podcast-only, shows! The OBS wrecking crew revisit Oliver’s ‘Inside the Huddle’ segment with tenor Charles Castronovo: an interview that was so good, Oliver forgot what they talked about… | |||
| 20 May 2022 | The Summer League! | 01:00:06 | |
[@ 3 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’… Just as summer baseball starts to heat up, a bullpen full of opera summer festival seasons steps up to the plate. We’ll give you the lineups of each team and tell you which balls to keep your eyes on… | |||
| 27 May 2022 | The Free Throw Finale! | 00:01:36 | |
This week… We wrap up a fabulous run on TDO Network with a video-only episode. The OBS Fab Five play an opera-themed version of HORSE on the basketball court… with a surprising victor… | |||
| 10 Jun 2022 | Bonus Points for a Happy Ending! | 00:55:57 | |
[@ 3 min] In ‘Crunching the Numbers’… You’ve always known opera is gay. Nicklausse and Hoffman. Octavian and the Marschallin. But it’s Pride Month, and the OBS family are celebrating those operas that are explicitly gay using a score card to determine which is the gayest opera of all… [@ 36 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Turns out French tenor Roberto Alagna is not a fan of iconic Italian auteur Pier Paolo Pasolini, while the first stills from the Leonard Bernstein biopic might get the film canceled before its release… | |||
| 17 Jun 2022 | Problematic Brothers! | 01:11:31 | |
[@ 3 min] It’s the return of the beloved ‘Spring Training for Your Ears’ segment… Sound like a pro when you talk about the three operas that a real opera fan should know, but that no one has time to listen to… | |||
| 22 Jun 2022 | The Google Doodle Bump! ft. Joyce El-Khoury | 01:00:03 | |
[@ 5 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with soprano Joyce El-Khoury, currently starring under the baton of Riccardo Muti in “Un Ballo in Maschera” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. And that’s just days after being named the Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year by Dallas Opera… [@ 33 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Both the San Antonio Symphony and Simon Estes are throwing in the towel, Bogdan Roscic is not throwing in the towel, and Barrie Kosky is kinda throwing in the towel… | |||
| 30 Jun 2022 | American Opera League Trading Cards! | 01:09:39 | |
[@ 3 min] This week, the OBS geniuses launch a new segment called 'Singer Trading Cards'! They start with the American League and swap some great artists of the recent past that you’ll want to add to your collection, too... | |||
| 07 Jul 2022 | Best of... Ketelsen and Heggie! | 00:56:36 | |
The OBS team was off for Independence Day, but manages to bring back two stellar ‘Inside the Huddle’ segments from past episodes… | |||
| 14 Jul 2022 | The Football [Soccer] Opera! ft. Scott Stroman | 01:03:43 | |
[@ 4 min] This week… George goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Scott Stroman, artistic director of Highbury Opera Theatre and composer of “Fever Pitch,” an opera about football. And by football, we mean soccer… | |||
| 21 Jul 2022 | A Week of Bad Takes! ft. Emanuele Andrizzi | 00:53:45 | |
[@ 4 min] This week… We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Opera Festival of Chicago’s Emanuele Andrizzi, to talk about a work that has paid a steep price for having been written just before Verdi’s more famous operas, despite having some of the best music he ever wrote… | |||
| 28 Jul 2022 | Don't Say the G-Word! ft. Matthew Aucoin! | 01:03:32 | |
[@ 3 min] It’s a 2-point conversion when the OBS scores an interview with MacArthur “Don’t-say-the-G-word” Fellow Matthew Aucoin. The composer, conductor, and author goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Oliver to talk about his breakthrough opera “Eurydice”, and to come to the defense of that dreadful ballet sequence in “La Traviata”... | |||
| 03 Aug 2022 | Most Highly Favored Lady! ft. Lila Palmer & Chloe Treat | 01:00:51 | |
[@ 4 min] Librettist Lila Palmer and stage director Chloe Treat go ‘Inside the Huddle to talk about the world premiere of a secular opera (with music by Damian Geter) about a biblical event: the Annunciation. The show just opened at the Glimmerglass Festival and couldn’t have come at a better time, because, you know, it’s about a woman consenting to give birth... [@ 41 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Angela Gheorghiu warns, if you didn't study in Romania, be careful... | |||
| 11 Aug 2022 | Sashay Varnay! | 01:06:25 | |
[@ 4 min] This week… in the OBS ‘Hall of Fame’, we dive into the career and legacy of the greatest dramatic soprano born in 20th century Sweden (whose name doesn’t rhyme with “Schmear-git Hilsson”)… | |||
| 18 Aug 2022 | (Don't) Drill, Baby, Drill! | 00:46:56 | |
This week… Oliver comes back from Santa Fe with four fabulous interviews. And Covid. So those highlights are gonna have to wait till next week… | |||
| 25 Aug 2022 | Cleveland Doesn’t Rock! ft. Alexandra LoBianco | 01:08:23 | |
[@ 7 min] It’s a double-play from Oliver’s trip to Santa Fe… First up, soprano Alexandra LoBianco goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ to talk about what you should do while waiting for your dramatic voice to ripen, and all the good vibrations we feel when we sing… | |||
| 01 Sep 2022 | Season Seven Finale! ft. Ryan Speedo Green and Isabel Leonard | 01:23:21 | |
[@ 5 min] It’s the Season 7 finale of the OBS, with another double-play from Oliver’s trip to Santa Fe Opera. He goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Ryan Speedo Green to talk about the bass-baritone’s debut at the festival on the heels of recovering from Covid… | |||
| 15 Sep 2022 | Chicago is a Countertenor Town! ft. Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and Michael Skarke | 01:10:44 | |
[@ 5 min] Season Eight of the OBS kicks off with the return of Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, our first three-peat ‘Inside the Huddle’ champ… | |||
| 22 Sep 2022 | Brought to You by the Letter O! ft. Frank Luzi | 00:51:34 | |
[@ 2 min] Festival O22 has arrived, and it has nothing to do with Oprah. We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Opera Philadelphia’s Frank Luzi for a play-by-play on one of the season’s biggest events… | |||
| 29 Sep 2022 | The Chaliapin Method! | 01:02:57 | |
[@ 3 min] Season Eight is a season of firsts. Last week, we had an administrator from the Marketing Suite on the show. This week, we induct the first bass into the OBS ‘Hall of Fame’… | |||
| 06 Oct 2022 | 42 Curtain Calls! | 01:06:48 | |
[@ 3 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’… Ashlee looks past your Patricks Mahomes and your Toms Brady to spotlight some of opera’s linemen, and how those unsung heroes are the key to winning the game… | |||
| 13 Oct 2022 | Mozart… but Make it Dirty! ft. Kathryn Lewek | 01:04:02 | |
[@ 3 min] Oliver and Ashlee go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with the *queen* of the "Queen of the Night", Kathryn Lewek. The American soprano is about to embark on a six-city season, including a stop in Chicago... | |||
| 20 Oct 2022 | John Williams Rock Band! ft. Anthony Barrese | 00:58:39 | |
[@ 5 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Opera Southwest Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Anthony Barrese to look behind the mask of the company’s upcoming world premiere of Héctor Armienta’s opera “Zorro”... | |||
| 27 Oct 2022 | Pavarotti's Nightmare! ft. Eric Einhorn | 01:00:17 | |
[@ 3 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Eric Einhorn, Artistic Director of On Site Opera - America’s leading presenter of site-specific operas in non-traditional venues - which just celebrated its 10th anniversary. We’ll find out how they plan to use all of the aluminum gifts they’ve received in their upcoming production of “Il Tabarro”… | |||
| 03 Nov 2022 | Groperalia! | 00:46:07 | |
[@ 3 min] On 10/30, opera’s biggest competition crowned this year’s winners. On 10/31, Classical Singer Forum replaced the face of the competition’s creator with that of Harvey Weinstein, congratulating “opera Institutions who remain complicit with sexual predators.” Will you, our beloved and woke OBS listeners, now *also* be complicit for learning the results of Operalia 2022…? | |||
| 10 Nov 2022 | We Shall Not Be Moved! ft. Wasfi Kani and Milly Forrest | 00:54:51 | |
[@ 6 min] George goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ for a double header with two of the team behind “Gods of the Game”, the football opera that opened at Grange Park Opera in England. The discussion kicks off with company’s founder and chief executive Wasfi Kani and concludes with cast member Milly Forrest… | |||
| 17 Nov 2022 | To Boo or Not to Boo! ft. Megan Gillis | 00:49:32 | |
[@ 2 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Megan Gillis, the co-founder and executive director of City Lyric Opera in New York City, to talk about “Uncovered”, the company’s current world premiere production… | |||
| 01 Dec 2022 | The MTV Opera Awards! ft. Amy Stebbins and Hauke Berheide | 00:42:28 | |
[@ 3 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ to catch up with director librettist Amy Stebbins and composer Hauke Berheide - a team who haven’t been on the OBS since the Before Times - to find out how they used the pandemic as inspiration for new opera forms in Germany… | |||
| 08 Dec 2022 | The Speaking Soundly Crossover Episode! ft. David Krauss | 00:52:40 | |
[@ 2 min] It’s our new segment ‘View from the Pit’, when we roll up our sleeves and get down and dirty with the best grinders in the business: instrumentalists playing in opera house orchestra pits. We chat with Metropolitan Opera Principal Trumpet David Krauss about the Triumphal March from “Aida”, and about his own podcast “Speaking Soundly”... | |||
| 15 Dec 2022 | World Cup Spoiler Alert! | 00:55:30 | |
[@ 3 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’... It’s the OBS’s patented method for predicting the winner of the Men’s FIFA World Cup. Have we ever led you wrong…? | |||
| 22 Dec 2022 | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood! ft. Graham Fandrei | 01:07:55 | |
[@ 5 min] We go 'Inside the Huddle' with Heinz Field and PPG Paints Arena anthem singer Graham Fandrei to talk all things opera as part of his Postcard from Pittsburgh… | |||
| 12 Jan 2023 | Met Moneyball! | 00:55:38 | |
[@ 3 min] The Metropolitan Opera is reducing performances and dipping into its endowment to survive. We ‘Crunch the Numbers’ to see if these tactics will swell the coffers… | |||
| 19 Jan 2023 | Sweet OBS (Bah Bah Bah)! | 00:57:55 | |
[@ 4 min] Boom… ‘Sportzando!’ returns with a round-up of the most iconic stadium anthems and why sports fans love ‘em… | |||
| 26 Jan 2023 | Homer's Epic! ft. Gil Rose | 00:54:53 | |
[@ 4 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with conductor Gil Rose, founder of Odyssey Opera and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. The companies just completed the second run of John Corigliano’s “Lord of Cries” and are preparing the East Coast premiere of the Oliver Sacks opera “Awakenings”… | |||
| 02 Feb 2023 | Fly, Baby Girl, Fly! ft. Kerriann Otaño | 00:58:42 | |
[@ 6 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Kerriann Otaño, VP of Engagement at Opera Delaware, about getting shushed in her own opera house… | |||
| 09 Feb 2023 | More Grammys than Georg Solti! | 00:47:28 | |
[@ 3 min] Hurts. Mahomes. Lanza. Ramey. We handicap Super Bowl LVII teams Philly and KC based on their hustle on the opera stage… | |||
| 16 Feb 2023 | Schmikado! ft. Andrew Morstein | 01:10:23 | |
[@ 5 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with tenor Andrew Morstein, who is set to star in Odyssey Opera’s upcoming production of “Awakenings”. The opera is by Tobias Picker, and Andrew reveals that he and Tobias are both members of a very exclusive club… | |||
| 23 Feb 2023 | Black and Beautiful and Prepared! | 01:07:09 | |
[@ 4 min] We induct a diva from Harlem - who is indisputably the quickest wit in opera - into the OBS ‘Hall of Fame’… | |||
| 02 Mar 2023 | Gently Used New Operas! ft. Randall Scotting | 01:09:53 | |
[@ 4 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with countertenor beefcake Randall Scotting to talk about Senesino, Lute Song, and weightlifting… | |||
| 09 Mar 2023 | The OBS Lifetime Achievement Award! | 01:04:41 | |
[@ 4 min] It’s that time of year, already… ‘Spring Training for Your Ears’ gets you back in shape with a slate of singers, composers and directors to level up your listening and viewing… | |||
| 16 Mar 2023 | 1,000 Arias in Your Pocket! ft. Justine F. Chen | 01:01:32 | |
[@ 5 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with composer Justine F. Chen, whose “The Life and Deaths of Alan Turing”, with a libretto by David Simpatico, gets its world premiere in Chicago… | |||
| 23 Mar 2023 | Bitter Critics and Other Deranged People! | 00:56:04 | |
[@ 12 min] The English Choral Tradition: is it Misogynist? Is it Harmful? Is it Ageist? Countertenor, choral director, and Friend of the Show Christopher Lowrey has a surprising and galvanizing take in ‘Free Throw’… | |||
| 30 Mar 2023 | Seventh-Inning Stretta! | 00:57:56 | |
[@ 4 min] Baseball’s Opening Day is here already, and the games will be shorter. We ‘Crunch the Numbers’ on how the MLB and the MET are responding to audiences with less time to spare and shorter attention spans… | |||
| 06 Apr 2023 | The Countermelody Crossover Episode! | 01:02:27 | |
[@ 4 min] In an act of true sportsmanship, we introduce you to a rival podcaster: Daniel Gundlach, host and producer of Countermelody. He may be our foe, but he deserves your compassion, all Ted Lasso-like… | |||
| 13 Apr 2023 | The Offenbach Champion! ft. Matthew Principe | 00:55:15 | |
[@ 8 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Matthew Principe, Director of Innovation at Detroit Opera and Director of Livestreams at Boston Baroque, to talk about the Mets! No, not that Met. And no, not the museum, either… | |||
| 20 Apr 2023 | Distraction Tactics! ft. Marcus Shields | 00:59:07 | |
[@ 3 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with stage director, cinematographer, and Friend of the Show Marcus Shields to get a peek behind the curtain of Ivo van Hove’s new-to-the-Met production of “Don Giovanni”… | |||
| 27 Apr 2023 | Dream Teams & Ladies' Nights! | 00:46:34 | |
[@ 3 min] Imagine the best sports contest ever. Now imagine that turned into an opera. In our ‘Sportzando!' segment, we reveal what we’re imagining… | |||
| 11 May 2023 | Elektra Complex, or The Mother’s Day Episode! | 01:02:00 | |
[@ 2 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’, Matt and Weston make you grateful that - whatever your issues are with your mother - at least she isn’t Clytemnestra… | |||
| 18 May 2023 | The Dead Man Walking Diet! ft. Ryan McKinny | 00:58:19 | |
[@ 4 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with American bass-baritone Ryan McKinny, who will reprise his role as Joseph De Rocher when “Dead Man Walking” finally makes its Met debut next season. Oliver talks to Ryan about that Jake Heggie opera, as well the Heggie piece he’ll tour with “Music of Remembrance”… [@ 27 min] In ‘Free Throw’… Apple Classical. Weston. ‘Nuff said… [@ 35 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Is LA Opera finally rid of the nightmare that is Plácido Domingo…? We’re back with an all-new show next week when George reports back from the 2023 Opera America conference in Pittsburgh. Join us…! | |||
| 25 May 2023 | Room to Grow! ft. Whitney Morrison | 01:04:04 | |
[@ 4 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with soprano Whitney Morrison, the Chicago native who created the role of Yasmine Miller in Daniel Bernard Roumain and Anna Deveare Smith’s “The Walkers” at Lyric Opera of Chicago, where Whitney is the company’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence… | |||
| 01 Jun 2023 | Summer and Speedo! | 01:20:52 | |
[@ 2 min] We revisit our (virtual) Summer 2021 opera road trip when we stopped in Knoxville for a special ‘Hall of Fame’... | |||
| 08 Jun 2023 | A Kaija Saariaho Tribute! | 01:02:42 | |
[@ 4 min] We induct the latest-departed great composer into the OBS HOF… | |||
| 15 Jun 2023 | Don't Cancel Handel! ft. Jonathan Woody | 00:56:46 | |
[@ 4 min] Live from the Boston Early Music Festival, Oliver goes 'Inside the Huddle' with Jonathan Woody. The bass-baritone and composer just wrapped up performances of the Festival’s centerpiece opera "Circé" as one of only two Black artists in the cast of dozens, but he’s not calling for the cancelation of Baroque music altogether (like *some* people we know...) | |||
| 22 Jun 2023 | Eurovision Meets Opera! ft. David Alden | 00:53:47 | |
[@ 3 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Olivier-award winning stage director David Alden, who is creating a new production of “The Flying Dutchman” for the Santa Fe Opera. George is in New Mexico with his OBS poncho, bolo tie, and handheld recorder to get the scoop… | |||
| 29 Jun 2023 | Heldenmommy Emerita! | 00:46:09 | |
[3 min] The Santa Fe Opera’s current season starts this weekend, and we get a field report, but not from PJ... | |||
| 06 Jul 2023 | American Opera League Trading Cards: The Return! | 00:45:26 | |
As Team OBS takes the week off for the Fourth, enjoy a rerun of our Independence Day show from last year, when we launched 'Singer Trading Cards', a look at the American League and some great artists of the recent past you’ll want to add to your collection... | |||
| 13 Jul 2023 | That’s How I Beat Shaq! ft. Morris Robinson | 01:10:55 | |
[@ 3 min] You may know Morris Robinson as *the* former-All-American-college-defensive-lineman-turned-bass, but when he goes ‘Inside the Huddle’, you’ll learn he’s recently been cast as a basketball “Big Man”… | |||
| 20 Jul 2023 | Despina vs. Susanna! | 01:01:09 | |
[@ 3 min] It’s an epic three-act ‘TKO’… the OBS team takes to the ice to settle, once and for all, that eternal question: what IS the best single act of a Mozart opera…? | |||
| 27 Jul 2023 | Bayreuthenheimer! ft. Patrick Dupré Quigley | 01:09:09 | |
[@ 3 min] Hot off the presses, Patrick Dupré Quigley has been named Artistic Director Designate of D.C.’s Opera Lafayette, with his first obstacle going ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Team OBS... | |||
| 03 Aug 2023 | Yakety Sax! ft. Raehann Bryce-Davis | 01:29:20 | |
[@ 3 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis, whose electrifying sense of fearlessness shines whether she’s onstage or being recorded by a cheap USB mic on Oliver’s vacation in Santa Fe… | |||
| 10 Aug 2023 | Die Rosenkavaliere! ft. Samantha Hankey & Susan Graham | 01:18:56 | |
[@ 3 min] It’s a double-header on Oktavian when we go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Samantha Hankey, star of the Met’s recent production of “Der Rosenkavalier”… and then we’re joined by the Oktavian of her generation… Susan Graham! Plus you’ll get color commentary from Matt Cummings about why it’s one of the best mezzo roles in Operaland… | |||
| 17 Aug 2023 | OnlyConductors! ft. Huw Montague Rendall | 01:21:52 | |
[@ 4 min] The Women’s World Cup is down to its final four teams, and we’re here to pick a winner, based on a head-to-head clash between each country’s greatest female singer… | |||
| 24 Aug 2023 | The End of an Era: Opera News and Renata Scotto | 01:00:59 | |
[@ 4 min] She was More Than a Diva, and now she enters the OBS Hall of Fame. It’s our tribute to the late, great Renata Scotto… | |||
| 31 Aug 2023 | Extreme Heat — the season finale! | 01:01:20 | |
[@ 3 min] It’s transition season in sports and on the OBS… We let you know what’s new on this season’s college football gridiron, we handicap the men’s draw of the US Open, and we recap our favorite Season 8 OBS highlights… | |||
| 07 Sep 2023 | One from the Archives! ft. Ying Fang | 00:30:52 | |
We dive into the OBS archives for a highlight from Season 6 when we went ‘Inside the Huddle’ with soprano Ying Fang… | |||
| 14 Sep 2023 | Mixed Doubles! ft. Ana María Martínez, Kiera Duffy, Christian Van Horn, & Will Liverman | 01:28:22 | |
[@ 7 min] Season 9 of the OBS begins with a mixed doubles ‘Inside the Huddle’ when FOUR artists join us to preview Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O23... | |||
| 21 Sep 2023 | Tap Dance of the Seven Veils! | 00:48:01 | |
We go 'Inside the Huddle' with soprano Amanda Majeski. The tap-dancing Mozart 'n' Strauss diva is from Illinois and lives in Wisconsin. You'll be shocked when you find out where her sports allegiance lies... | |||
| 28 Sep 2023 | Bringing Fire to Chicago! | 00:57:57 | |
[@ 4 min] In our new segment, ‘Swings & Misses’, we look at the best and worst decisions from Operaland, starting with the home runs and strikeouts of Anthony Freud’s tenure at Lyric Opera of Chicago… | |||
| 05 Oct 2023 | Unsuitable for Children! ft. John Brancy and Lisette Oropesa | 01:11:09 | |
[@ 4 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with John Brancy in London, where he's reprising his role as the Artisan & Collector in George Benjamin’s “Picture a Day Like This”. He tells us how that role was customized to his freakish abilities and why we shouldn’t limit ourselves to just one way of singing… | |||
| 12 Oct 2023 | Twi-Night of the Gods! ft. Luca Pisaroni and Robert Watson | 01:20:21 | |
[@ 5 min] It's an ‘Inside the Huddle’ is a double-header! First up, in the middle of rehearsals for “The Barber of Seville” at LA Opera, it’s the dreamy Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni... | |||
| 19 Oct 2023 | Pride of the Pods, The Fightin’ OBS Band! ft. Rolando Villazón | 00:58:12 | |
[@ 3 min] It’s a Band Geek Edition of 'Sportzando!' Say. No. More. | |||
| 26 Oct 2023 | Gilda in a Sack, the Hallowe’en Spooktacular! | 01:13:02 | |
[@ 3 min] It’s the annual Hallowe’en Spooktacular, the scary and shocking moments of opera that will have you lose your head… | |||
| 02 Nov 2023 | The DM and The Champ! ft. Alex DeSocio and Ryan Speedo Green | 00:52:22 | |
[@ 2 min] After an injury sidelined Alex DeSocio from a college football career, the baritone turned to the most logical alternative: opera. His young career has already taken him to Pensacola Opera, Opera Birmingham, Fort Worth Opera, and now the world premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s “Intelligence” at Houston Grand Opera… | |||
| 09 Nov 2023 | The Shirley Verrett Biopic Starring Angela Bassett! ft. Lise Davidsen | 01:03:41 | |
[@ 5 min] As Lidiya Yankovskaya prepares to step down as Music Director of Chicago Opera Theater, we take a look at some of the ‘Swings and Misses’ of her tenure, including being a three-time Inside the Huddle guest on the OBS... | |||
| 16 Nov 2023 | Wicked, the Opera! ft. Aaron Sheehan | 01:13:22 | |
[@ 3 min] It’s awards season! Grammy nominations are in; so are the International Opera Awards winners. Find out who’s cashing in on the OBS bump this year… Plus, Matt and Ashlee play 'Monday Evening Quarterback' from coast to coast to... well, third coast… | |||
| 23 Nov 2023 | SprechstimmeCenter! | 01:22:51 | |
It’s a special, all-clips, holiday episode for you, dear listener. Whether you’re stuffing a turkey or waiting in baggage claim, find out which moments in opera make our team think of family and togetherness. Like "Elektra"... | |||
| 30 Nov 2023 | For Unto Us a Barihunk! is Born ft. Francesca Zambello | 01:03:41 | |
[@ 4 min] Legendary stage director and Intendantin Francesca Zambello goes 'Inside the Huddle' to share her philosophy on how to make an opera company an attractive place to work, and she previews her current project at Chicago Opera Theater: Shostakovich's "The Nose"... | |||
| 07 Dec 2023 | The Lucha Leche League! ft. Maya Kherani | 00:59:59 | |
[@ 5 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Maya Kherani. In addition to being a rare example of a soprano of South Asian descent who has gained traction in the largely white world of Early Music, Maya is also establishing herself as an advocate for mothers in opera... | |||
| 14 Dec 2023 | Marlena Malas, a Monument ft. John Relyea | 01:06:21 | |
[@ 4 min] Canadian-American bass John Relyea goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with us from Rome where he just completed a run in the title role of Boito’s "Mefistofele". Little did he know that he would be bargaining with his OWN soul when he agreed to be interviewed... | |||
| 21 Dec 2023 | 2023 In Review! | 01:15:09 | |
It’s a full house for our last new episode of 2023! We wrap things up with the best and worst from Operaland over the past year, including trends, performances, and passings, plus we vote for the inaugural OBS Person of the Year… | |||
| 01 Jan 2024 | 2023 Replay! ft. David Alden, Kerriann Otaño, and Marcus Shields | 01:14:18 | |
Happy New Year from the OBS Team! We'll be back with an all-new episode on Thursday, January 11, 2024... | |||
| 11 Jan 2024 | The Mercedes Jean Jacket! ft. Briana Hunter | 00:55:32 | |
[@ 5 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Briana Hunter. The American mezzo-soprano is accomplished stage actress and a champion of new works, making her a stage director’s dream... | |||
| 18 Jan 2024 | The Triumph of Goodness! ft. Jack Swanson and Alessandro Corbelli | 01:12:33 | |
[@ 5 min] Tenor Jack Swanson goes ‘Inside the Huddle’. The young American bel canto specialist has already debuted at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro, and won Oliver’s heart as Almaviva at Santa Fe Opera Festival. Now he's in Chicago set to make his house debut in another signature Rossini part: Prince Ramiro in "Cinderella"... | |||
| 25 Jan 2024 | Defend the Don (Giovanni)! ft. Jonathan Cohen | 01:02:20 | |
[@ 4 min] Can’t wait to find out who’ll win the AFC and NFC conferences? In 'Chalk Talk', we pick the Super Bowl contenders with our patented opera prediction method… | |||
| 01 Feb 2024 | An Impassioned Defense of Cricket! ft. Melissa Dunphy | 00:58:44 | |
[@ 5 min] We go 'Inside the Huddle' with composer Melissa Dunphy to excavate 250 years of Philadelphia history, discovering broken pottery, the music of ghosts, and why cricket isn’t actually a boring sport… | |||
| 08 Feb 2024 | Lucia di Tuscaloosa! ft. Reginald Mobley | 00:59:52 | |
[@ 2 min] The Met has now staged two operas, in working-class middle America, to “mixed” reviews. Were these bold artistic choices a bid to shake up elite opera audiences, or did someone in the props department just have access to a trailer...? | |||
| 15 Feb 2024 | Welcome to the Opera! ft. Carolyn Sloan | 00:58:00 | |
[@ 3 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with children’s book author Carolyn Sloan whose new picture book “Welcome to the Opera”, much to our surprise, does NOT use the story of Lady MacBeth of Mtsensk to introduce opera to the newest audiences... | |||