John von Rhein, who recently retired as the Chicago Tribune’s classical music critic, joins the show live via phone ‘Inside the Huddle’ with his highlights and lowlights from over forty years of attending and writing about classical music performances in Chicago...  Then the OBS team takes off on another summer opera festival road trip.  This time they head overseas to the Granddaddy of Them All, the Bayreuth Festival in Germany...  Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’, tribute is paid to Aretha Franklin's opera voice, and the best way to punish your neighbors with opera is revealed...

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[@ 4 min] This week, 'Hometown Team' Chicago Opera Theater announced its new season. Lawrence Edelson joins us to unpack the first full season he programmed as the company’s recently appointed General Director...

[@ 38 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… We have the latest Royal news. Not Kate and William, or Meghan and Harry; it’s the newly-named Royal Ballet and Opera...

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The Ballet Episode! ft. Lawrence Edelson

[@ 4 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with the newly-minted general director of Opera Philadelphia: it’s the return of Friend of the Show Anthony Roth Costanzo, reaping the benefits of the OBS bump...

[@ 27 min] We dip into the ‘Listener Mailbag’ on your reactions to our recent interview with Extinction Rebellion and the results of our Sweet Sixteen Schools of Singing showdown...

[@ 32 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, Friend of the Show Huw Montague Rendall will sing Billy Budd in Vienna. If you’ve ever wanted to meet Oliver Camacho in person, he will be sleeping outside the Staatsoper for the entire run...

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Queerbait Casting! ft. Anthony Roth Costanzo

[@ 2 min] The opera world says goodbye to the legendary Sir Andrew Davis...

[@ 25 min] We go 'Inside the Huddle' with John Mark Rozendaal, a musician and Extinction Rebellion activist who disrupted the Met’s “Tannhäuser” last winter...
 
[@ 47 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’: all aboard the Caballé Express...!

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The SAD News Train ft. Extinction Rebellion

[@ 5 min] Harry Bicket, music director of Santa Fe Opera, takes a ‘Free Throw’ on being pigeonholed as an Early Music specialist. This summer, Maestro Bicket conducts "Don Giovanni"; we ask him to weigh in on his favorite act of a Mozart opera…

[@ 19 min] In 'Chalk Talk'... It’s all very well for us to bust a bracket finding the Best School of Music voice program. But what are those departments actually teaching, and how does that relate to what a modern freelance performer actually needs to know…?

[@ 39 min] It’s a bonus ‘Free Throw’ from tenor Jonathan Tetelman, making a double debut at the Met, starting this Saturday in "La Rondine"…

[@ 49 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… major awards, a scandal (or not) at the NY Phil, budget cuts in Paris, and all hail the Tempo Police...

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Bicket, Tetelman, Cederquist & Hardgrave

[@ 3 min] The Final Four bracket for the Best School for Singing is here. Will a top seed prevail...?

[@ 26 min] In 'Listener Mailbag,' PJ and Donald give us a preview of  “La Rondine” at the Met, which features the house debut of Friend of the Show Emily Pogorelc...

[@ 31 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill,’ we ignore opera completely and talk about the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for once...!

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