Opera Plot Happy Hour

In which Amanda and Tina make an innuendo out of the entire plot...

Black Table Arts: https://www.blacktablearts.com/home#about

Black Opera Live: https://anchor.fm/blackopera

Classically Black Podcast: https://www.classicallyblackpodcast.com/

Trilloquy: https://www.trilloquy.org/

The Score: https://mnopera.org/edi/the-score/#:~:text=The%20Score%20is%20their%20new,racist%20and%20anti%2Doppressive%20lens.

The ARCC of Change: https://www.joinarcc.org/events/release-of-first-arcc-podcast-the-arcc-of-change-with-donzel-leggett

Mapping Police Violence: www.mappingpoliceviolence.org

Instagram Accounts to Follow:

@operaisracist

@composingisracist

@balletisracist

@orchestraisracist

@blackgirlssingopera

@blackwomeninopera

NK Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/articles/n-k-jemisin-broken-earth-trilogy-books-in-order/

Tomi Adeyemi's Children of Blood and Bone: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250170972

When Marian Sang: https://kids.scholastic.com/kids/book/when-marian-sang-by-pam-munoz-ryan/

Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls: https://www.rebelgirls.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjwjuqDBhAGEiwAdX2cj5O54IxtGNEWjBYdDs7nE1SZEuXjQl3Bzf7gUfqJRMcqByQl0xu-EhoCrqcQAvD_BwE

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Join us for a rousing game of popcorn with The Drunken Tenor Rob McPherson, as we ruin the very opera that led Tina down the path to becoming an opera singer.

"Goin' on an adventure to hell. Pack a lunch."

This episode was a special request from our #1 fan, Savannah D.

Enjoy the wild romp through the mortal realm (where the love lives suck and the violin playing is mediocre, at best), Olympus (where we're not sure what's worse, the politicians or the food), and finally hell (where there is fly sex (???) and everyone dances the Can-Can).

"People did a lot of regrettable things in the 70s"

This opera should be re-titled "Harriet Tubman: Badass."

The music was written by a composer at the top of her craft.

The libretto is also by the composer...which we have a few questions about. But that aside, Amanda and Tina enjoyed this one!

"That's the kind of spooky Catholic nonsense I'm here for."

You'll cry, you'll cry, and you'll probably cry.

But don't worry, Amanda and Tina try to keep things light with anecdotes about spooky relics, catacombs, and TV shows about waking the dead.

"Don't get your fist swallowed by a catfish, cuz I wont eat it."

In other news, we're trending in Sweden!"

"Please sir, may I have another?"

An episode in which Amanda and Tina discuss the first opera by a woman ever to be performed at the Met and are then enraged by newspaper reviews from 1903.

"She's a tenor. Watch out."

This week, we are joined by special guest Dominique Wooten Embretson, as we explore what was perhaps the first truly American opera. Also, Tina was conceived in a waterbed and other things you wish you didn't know...

"We just got a text from the Gods. They're angry."

What?!? A Bel Canto opera that passes the Bechdel test? Color us surprised!