George goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with designer Julia Noulin-Mérat. She designed the production of Stravinsky’s “The Rake’s Progress” that opened last night at Boston Lyric Opera. They talk about that show, plus why her New York City-based design studio has a Las Vegas branch, and what she thinks needs to change in the way opera productions are designed in America...

But first, it’s ‘Chalk Talk’: Oliver and George try to answer a question posed in last week’s edition of Crain’s Business magazine: Can Lyric Opera of Chicago survive the 21st century?

Then, Oliver plays ‘Monday Evening Quarterback’ on two shows he’s seen recently. And it’s the ‘The Two Minute Drill’: all the opera headlines from the past week that you need to know...

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