Opera Box Score

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Opera Box Score episodes

  • Fantasy Fachball: Team Aida!
    [@ 3 min] This week… Chicago is on the clock. It’s the return of the ‘Fantasy Fachball’ segment, as the OBS crew do a real-time, opera singer mock draft to cast the perfect quartet for “Aida”...
    [Don’t forget to put together your own ‘Fantasy Fachball’ team for “Aida” and, of course, give it a dreadful pun-ny name. Let us know what you’re thinking at [email protected], and get an OBS beer coaster and an OBS lapel pin…]
    [@ 30 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Tommasini is finally hanging up his cleats and the Met is turning the page on the Lepage ring cycle…
    Next week… We celebrate feasts in opera…
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    49 min
  • Go, Kath, Go! ft. Kathryn Henry
    [@ 8 min] This week… The OBS cheeseheads go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Kathryn Henry, the soprano who went from standby to stardom in the world premiere of “The Lord of Cries” at the Santa Fe Opera...
    [@ 48 min] Then… Well, the OBS team finally saw it: the Barrie Kosky production of "TheMagic Flute”. And that also means the return of Monday Evening Quarterback…
    [@ 57 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Elina Garanča announces that she has grown neither horns nor wings, and we get to the bottom of why exactly opera singers don’t deafen each other onstage…
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    1 hr 14 min
  • The Slovakian Nightingale!
    [@ 3 min] This week… A heroic coloratura soprano is inducted posthumously into the OBS Hall of Fame. (Sorry, Gruberova fans. We thought we had so much time left with this legendary artist…)
    [@ 36 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… While the Drill took a break for the Hallowe’en Spooktacular, both Operalia and a Trade-News-apalooza happened…
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    53 min
  • The OBS Hallowe'en Spooktacular!
    This week... It's our annual Halloween Spooktacular… No 'Two Minute Drill', no hot takes: just some old-fashioned, vengeful hunchbacks, some riddling ice princesses, and some real phantoms of the opera...
    Next week... We induct (posthumously, with tears in our eyes) a brilliant soprano into the OBS Hall of Fame...
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    41 min
  • Charles in Charge! ft. Charles Castronovo
    [@ 4 min] Fall is for falling in love, and Oliver just barely contains himself when he goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with dreamy tenor Charles Castronovo…
    [@ 33 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… First, a secret relationship with your girlfriend’s sister; then, the three of you plot to kill their mother. It’s not a verismo opera plot, it’s real life, and the villain is a countertenor...
    Plus… We’re back with an all-new show next week with our annual Hallowe’en Spooktacular. Join us… if you dare!
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    54 min
  • Words First, Kaufmann Outburst! ft. Keturah Stickann
    [@ 4 min] This week… We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with stage director Keturah Stickann. She brought ‘The Barber of Seville’ to San Diego Opera’s drive-in COVID season; she’s also bringing opera librettists into the conversation with her podcast “Words First”…
    [@ 26 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… If you’re dumb enough to take your phone out and film Jonas Kaufmann while he’s singing, prepare to be shamed in a German accent…
    We’re back with an all-new show next week when we go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with tenor Charles Castronovo…
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    53 min
  • The Folks Talk Nice About Carlisle Floyd!
    [@ 6 min] The OBS yokels induct another seminal composer into the OBS Hall of Fame. Hint? Think Susannah. With an H...
    [@ 34 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Who can afford to study opera anyway? According to Hollywood, it’s wealthy white women. And they’re not wrong.
    The OBS back with an all-new show next week, going ‘Inside the Huddle’ with stage director Keturah Stickann, who's also host of the podcast "Words First: Talking Text in Opera"…
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    51 min
  • Supporting Women in STEM! ft. Angela Born and Rose Freeman
    [@ 4 min] The OBS placekickers go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with director Rose Freeman and soprano Angela Born, whose collective work is in a double bill production at Third Eye Theatre Ensemble in Chicago...
    [@ 29 min] In Chalk Talk… While this the show was taped, Terence Blanchard’s opera “Fire Shut Up In My Bones” opened the season at the Metropolitan Opera. The OBS team talk about the plethora of ways this is a truly monumental occasion...
    [@ 42 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… There's red cards and yellow cards; this time there might have to be a green flag…
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    57 min
  • The Case of the 467lb Rock! ft. Irina & Lucas Meachem
    [@ 4 min] Pianist and vocal coach Irina Meachem, and her baritone husband Lucas, go ‘Inside the Huddle’ to preview their upcoming album “Shall We Gather” which comes out this month...
    [@ 29 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Can’t we just keep the drama on the stage and out of the wings… and out of the fly tower...?
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    55 min
  • The Olympia Sprint! ft. Erin Morley
    [@ 25 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with star soprano Erin Morley, who seems like a circus performer with all the high-flying, high-pressure roles she sings. Hear her compare singing Lucia to giving birth, as we launch Season Seven of the OBS…
    [@ 52 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… We repeat the mantra yet again: “NO KIDS AT THE OPERA!”  Nope, not even if they’re onstage...
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    1 hr 10 min

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