[@ 3 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’… The OBS team asks just if, when, and how, exactly, opera will bounce back, post-pandemic. What needs to happen now in order to build back opera better?

[@ 29 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’…  The Met actually made an agreement with a union!

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[@ 3 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’, the OBS team commemorates Asian Heritage Month by spotlighting some of the biggest players on the scene today, with a bespoke playlist here...

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[@ 45 min] Then, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’, the finalists for the Met National Council auditions are named, the Black Opera Alliance gathers signatories for its pledge, and the 2020 International Opera Awards are handed out... virtually…

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[@ 4 min] Barbara Hannigan goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ to give Weston and Oliver the post-pandemic singer’s playbook, to introduce her young artist initiative called Momentum, and to argue why streaming is here to stay...

[@ 48 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, the starting lineup is announced for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Will Kosovo be this year’s front runner…?

And the OBS is back with an all-new show on May 12 when the team spotlights Asian artists you should know…

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A bonus episode featuring Amanda Forsythe who went 'Inside the Huddle' with Oliver to discuss holding an audience’s attention during a set change, singing super fast coloratura, and favoring being an entertainer over being historically accurate. This interview originally aired on WFMT 98.7 in Chicago.

Playlist

George Frideric Handel: Almira, HWV 1

Act II, "Der Himmel wird straffen dein falsches Gemüht"

Act III, "Quillt, ihr überhäuften Zähren"

Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra

Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, directors

from Boston Early Music Festival's complete recording of Almira

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Agostino Steffani: "Occhi belli, non più"

with Colin Balzer, tenor

Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble

Paul O'Dette & Stephen Stubbs, directors

from Boston Early Music Festival's Agostino Steffani: Duets of Love and Passion

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Johann Gottlieb Graun: "O Dio, Fileno"

Opera Prima

Cristiano Contadin, viola da gamba and direction

from Opera Prima's J. G. Graun: Cantatas & Viola da Gamba Concerto

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Handel: Giulio Cesare

Act III, "Da tempeste"

Apollo's Fire

Jeannette Sorrell, director

from The Power of Love: Arias from Handel Operas

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[@ 4 min] Get your Copland fanfare ready! The OBS crew induct - posthumously, this time - a mezzo-soprano into the hallowed corridors of the OBS Hall of Fame...

[@ 34 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’: the New York Public Library gets a huge opera donation...

Team OBS is back with an all-new show next week featuring soprano-conductor Barbara Hannigan ‘Inside the Huddle’…

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[@ 4 min] Verdi baritone and gentle giant Quinn Kelsey goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Ashlee and Oliver to talk about singing traditional Hawai’ian music for an operatic kanikapila and preparing for Scarpia at Opera Philadelphia...

[@ 30 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’…. One year into the pandemic, the OBS team look at some of the most striking innovations in opera, including new media, do-it-yourself music-making, alternative, pandemic-resistant venues, and… trucks…?

[@ 37 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… The Dude goes to conduct in Paris, and the city of Madrid awards its Medal of Gold to an opera administrator...

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[@ 3 min] Maestro Enrico Lopez-Yañez goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Weston and Oliver. The Mexican-American conductor is slated to conduct Chicago Opera Theater’s season finale, but is also the star of his own space pirate web series...

[@ 30 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, big money lands in L.A., while Jonathan Dove’s opera ‘Flight’ takes off in Seattle...

The OBS back with an all-new show next week when baritone Quinn Kelsey goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ to talk Verdi, Hawai’i and other things ending in the letter “i”, plus you get more opera headlines, more hot takes and the return of Ashlee Hardgrave!

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[@ 3 min] By the time you get this episode, one of opera’s most powerful gatekeepers will be managing a publicity crisis thanks to our pal Zach Finkelstein and another one of his highly researched investigative articles for MiddleClassArtist.com…

[@ 26 min] By the time you get this episode, the men’s NCAA champ will be crowned. Here on the OBS, we’re working our way through the Final Four of the Operaland bracket to pick one dark horse opera to become part of the standard rep... (And a playlist here: https://bit.ly/3dGwYBs)

[@ 56 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’: Opera Australia takes a page out the Met’s union negotiation playbook...

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[@ 3 min] For the last episode in Women’s History Month, the OBS has an exclusive interview with the Artistic Director of the San Francisco Opera Center. Carrie-Ann Matheson goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Matt and Oliver to lay out the gameplan for her young Merolini and Adler charges…

[@ 27 min] The OBS soothsayers play through the Operaland March Madness bracket to the Final Four. Did your pick go the distance...?

[@ 52 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’: the OBS bump helps out yet again…

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[@ 3 min] The OBS ballers dribble you through the other two regions of the Operaland March Madness bracket - Classical and Romantic - all leading up to the grand finale next week...

[@ 26 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’: exit stage right James Levine, plus Tulsa Opera cancels a commission by a Black composer written to commemorate the Tulsa Massacre...

Plus, next week, San Francisco Opera Center’s new Artistic Director Carrie-Ann Matheson joins us ‘Inside the Huddle’...!

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