Lidiya Yankovskaya returns! The highly sought after conductor has already had a whirlwind season with world premieres at the Prototype Festival, Minnesota Opera, and with one of our hometown teams, Chicago Opera Theater. Find out how she juggles it all when she goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Oliver and Ashlee... It’s ‘Spring Training for Your Ears’. Over the next few weeks, tune up your familiarity with the comic masterpiece “Albert Herring”. With history hurdles and recording reps, get ready to become the point guard for Team Benjamin Britten... And then… in the Two Minute Drill… #MeToo tenor Vittorio Grigolo wants to... caress your ears?

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Which soprano sang more than eighty different roles, spinning out long phrases in operas ranging from Salome to Norma? Find out when Matt makes his next pick for the OBS ‘Hall of Fame’... But first, Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with baritone John Taylor Ward, a darling of the contemporary and early music concert scenes and the co-founder of Minnesota’s Lakes Area Music Festival… In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, COVID-19 claims the life of playwright and librettist Terrence McNally…

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Zach Finkelstein of middleclassartist.com 'Crunches the Numbers' with George on the metrics of Force Majeure clauses in the many contracts that are being cancelled in the wake of COVID-19... But first, Weston inducts a composer into the OBS 'Hall of Fame' that's right on, er, The Nose... Oliver leads a 'Two Minute Drill' with a pair of bizarre stories about Plácido Domingo...

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The OBS crew take social distancing a little too literally, as it’s just George live in-studio, with the rest of the team calling in with their personal stories as to how Coronavirus is affecting them - and others - as artists in opera...

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The OBS crew go 'Inside the Huddle' with multi-operatic-hyphenate Priti Gandhi of Minnesota Opera about her most recent role as mover, shaker, and Chief Artistic officer... In ‘Chalk Talk’, Operaland has coronavirus fever! Hear what opera companies all over the world are doing in reaction to the panic... In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, it's talk about a “mutual” parting of ways between the Royal Opera House and Plácido Domingo, the fact that Hitler apparently tried to write a terrible opera, and a misogynist computer algorithm...

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Enigma Chamber Opera hit the ground running earlier this year with a new production of Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw” in Boston. Artistic director Kirsten Cairns and tenor Matthew DiBattista join the OBS-ers live in studio to talk storefront opera... In ‘Chalk Talk’, the team takes a look at Opera Philadelphia’s upcoming season. It’s a doozy, and they'll tell you why... In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, apparently the everyone has to keep talking about Plácido Domingo...

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The 2020 season announcements are coming in fast and furious. George and Weston take a deep dive into the recently announced line-up at Opera North in England and take another deep dive at Washington National Opera’s season…. And they take a deep dive into the Listener Mailbag for a real barnstormer of a question… Plus, in ‘Two Minute Drill’, the Coronavirus hits Operaland...

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Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera have announced their 2020-2021 seasons, and the OBS guys are happy to declare that progress is being made… But first, classical music’s racial diversity problem. It’s an evergreen topic on OBS, but two articles published this month shed light on the striking lack of Black and Latinx people on the stages and in the audiences of America’s elite performance venues... In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, Anna Netrebko gets an award (and some criticism) and Javier Camarena gets yet another encore...

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The OBS-ers go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with American soprano Marnie Breckenridge, a darling of the contemporary opera circuit starring in the world premiere of Tapestry Opera’s "Jacqueline" in Toronto later this month... Then, in 'Chalk Talk', the team remembers Mirella Freni, playing some favorite clips of the iconic Italian soprano who died at the age of 84... In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, big money in St. Louis and headshaking in New Zealand...

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The OBS gents go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Royce Vavrek, creator of such works as "Breaking the Waves", "Dog Days", and "JFK"... How should we be selling opera for newbies? NPR’s got opinions... In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, there's talk about everyone’s convenience store, 7-11...

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