This show is the second part of a double header. Last week, on Show No. 23, we were joined by the world-famous tenor Matthew Polenzani. If you haven't heard that podcast yet, be sure to go back an episode to catch everything Matthew had to say...

On this show, we follow up on a recent article in which an undergraduate singer asked composer Mark Adamo about how "alive" opera was today. We take that conversation and invert it: in what ways are undergraduate students alive for opera? How does undergraduate voice training prepare singers for careers in opera, if at all...?

Plus we've all your opera headlines, and Oliver challenges Tobias and Giovanna, as well as our listeners, in a gender bending 'Pop Quiz'. Guess the gender of five vocally androgynous singers who specialize in the repertoire of the 18th century castrato. Listen carefully, 'cause you don’t get to see which bathroom they go into...