Co-host Tobias Wright is back from Florida where he’s been goofing around as part of the Sarasota Opera Young Artist Program. He tries to convince George that he’s actually furthered his career by doing that program.

Plus we've got all your opera headlines, Tobias takes our opera Pop Quiz on Giuseppe Verdi, Oliver interviews bass Deandre Simmons, and we tackle an article in the Wall Street Journal that suggests opera companies are finding smaller venues to perform in. But can that success ever transfer to the big opera houses?