Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Lidiya Yankovskaya, the newly appointed Music Director of Chicago Opera Theater. This exclusive half hour interview introduces you to a major player in the Chicago opera scene, as they talk about Yankovskaya's training, her opinions on bel canto opera, her initiative called the Refugee Orchestra Project, technology in opera, the COT young artist program, and she reveals some thoughts on future seasons for the company...

Then in ‘The Hometown Team’, Oliver brings you another interview, this time with soprano Claire DiVizio, the Artistic Director of Thompson Street Opera, which kicks off their 2017-18 season this weekend with a comic book hero-themed opera called “Cosmic Ray and the Amazing Chris"...

Plus you get all your opera headlines and George's hot takes on them in ‘The Two Minute Drill’...

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