[@ 3 min] Oliver and Matt go head to head in an early opera 'TKO'. Who will win out in the battle of the Orfei...?

[@ 44 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill,’ don’t believe everything you hear about COVID transmission at the opera...

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[@ 3 min] The OBS lads go 'Inside the Huddle' with Alyssa Martin and Marcus Shields, two of the co-founders of OSSIA, the online production company that approaches opera with the same savvy as your favorite social media influencers...

[@ 38 min] ‘Pop Quiz’ returns, much to Oliver's chagrin. If opera artists were wrestlers, what would their nicknames be...?

[@ 57 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’: good news from Berlin, bad news from St. Petersburg, really bad news from St. Louis...

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[@ 2 min] Matt Cummings launches a brand new segment, as he and the OBS dudes debate the merits of an overlooked classic opera…

[@ 43 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, Salzburg may be a little hotter than expected this year, and are the Met’s pay-to-listen concerts striking a sour note for some in Operaland?

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[@ 4 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with the pioneering Cuban-American composer and conductor Odaline de la Martinez. Find out how Maestra Martinez has been toiling over decades to increase the diversity of those composers whose work gets performed and recorded. Plus, Martinez reveals how Dame Ethel Smyth got into “good trouble” and conducted a chorus from prison…

[@ 42 min] The OBS officiating crew dips into the listener mailbag for a double header of ‘Post Game Notes’ on Richard Strauss and Beverly Sills, and gives some questionable advice…

[@ 1 h 07 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill,’ Lisette Oropesa gets an encore and Andrea Bocelli has a bad take on coronavirus lockdowns…

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[@ 5 min] Major League Baseball is back, sorta. The OBS Bloopers talk through the struggles baseball has faced, past and present, and what signs opera and classical music might steal from America’s pastime...

[@ 30 min] American soprano Amanda Woodbury goes 'Inside the Huddle' to discuss singing Konstanze, balancing motherhood with an international career, and being a 9th inning replacement for a Met radio broadcast...

[@ 60 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, Lincoln Center stops paying above market interest rates. Your OBSers have no idea what that means, but'll give hot takes on it, anyway...

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[@ 5 min] This week in 'Chalk Talk', the reckoning begins. A-list artists called on the Richard Tucker Foundation to remove one of its board members after he made a series of racist comments on social media. This, after a week full of articles and editorials addressing Classical Music’s race problem and middleclassartist.com’s data-driven spotlight on racial inequality in opera...

[@ 19 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with one of the most exciting and talented American baritones of his generation. That baritone would be Theo Hoffman…

[@ 51 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’: if you had to pick between Basketball and Opera, what would you choose...?

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[@ 3 min] Team OBS goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Joel Puckett, composer of Minnesota Opera’s production of “The Fix” (with a libretto by Eric Simonson) about the fraudulent 1919 Chicago White Sox team. A guest who can shoot the breeze about sports…?!

[@ 37 min] Apparently there are still places that want to hire James Levine. In ‘Chalk Talk’, find out where in the world presenting an alleged sexual predator and cult-leader will still sell tickets...

[@ 46 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, women take the reins of New Orleans Opera and Charlottesville Opera, while the Metropolitan Opera stops giving away free online content…

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We keep the (American) Independence Day weekend party going - physically distanced, of course - with a trip into the archives. Join Matt, Weston and Ashlee (plus a little bit of Toby) for three Yankee Doodle OBS Hall-of-Famers…

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[@ 5 min] Wonder why all classical composers seem to be dead white men? Wonder where all the women are? Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with a champion of gender equality in classical music: Elizabeth de Brito, the producer and host of England’s The Daffodil Perspective…

[@ 32 min] We dip into the ‘Listener Mailbag’ to discover Oliver, Matt, and Ashlee’s Fantasy League picks for a dinner party…

[@ 54 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, experience the mask-wearing, physically-distanced audience at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and take a trip to Greece with Ashley…

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[@ 4 min] Stage director Alison Moritz joins George and Oliver ‘Inside the Huddle’ to talk about opera in the Era of Corona and of Uprising...

[@ 27 min] A Full House of the OBS team open up the ‘Listener Mailbag’ and find an inquiry about their hopes and dreams for a new opera house...

[@ 35 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, Barcelona tests the theory of whether plants appreciate classical music...

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