Classically (Un)Trained

49: Ep. 6: A Comedian Goes to High Art World | An Opera Singer and a Comedian Walk Into a Bar

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Welcome to another conversation from the high/low art divide between opera-singer-turned-experimental-performer Ema Katrovas and comedian-and-TV-writer-turned-novelist Nicholas Anthony.

On Nick’s last night in Prague, Nick and Ema went to see the world-premiere of a contemporary opera by Richard Braxton, Trillium X, at the DOX Center for Contemporary Art in Prague. They recorded this reaction that same night.


Some things mentioned or not remembered: 

  • Anthony Braxton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Braxton
  • Ostrava Days: https://www.newmusicostrava.cz/en/ostrava-days/about-festival/
  • Petr Kotík’s composition I took Aderol to attend: Many Many Women 
  • Patricia Barber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Barber
  • The image of the opera house Ema mentions comes from the book The Gilded Stage: A Social History of Opera : https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gilded-stage-daniel-snowman/1020670873
  • Leonard Bernstein’s Candide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide_(operetta)
  • The librettist of Nixon in China (which premiered in 1987): Alice Goodman 


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