NYCO will finally rise from the ashes as NYCO...Mope from Harvard fills culture "article" with quotes...Lyric Opera Chicago launches Chicago Voices program...Anna Netrebko weds again in style...Shasta College hires pantomime bear for Bartered Bride...Guns cheapen Lucia's death in Eugene.

The final installment of La Sonnambula on Oliver's Corner: Amina, the Sleep-Cuddler

This week features Michael, The OC and Doug Dodson.

NYCO Renaissance now front runner to lead NYCO...and puts on a Tosca in January...Montserrat Caballé avoids jail time on tax evasion verdict...Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker shows his "opera" pipes...Fred Plotkin, man about the world announce this year's "Freddies" for operatic achievement.

Poverty, kleptomania,  and child abuse - A very Menotti Christmas, THIS WEEK in Oliver's Corner.

Guess Who Died?

This week features Michael, The OC and Doug Dodson.

James Levine learns Die Fledermaus...Google will plant you right next to an oboe player on stage...fake transgender Carmen...Opera in a limo.

This week in Oliver's Corner, YOU get to decide who is Bel Canto and who is just Can Belto.

Plus Guess Who Died?

This week features Michael, The OC and Doug Dodson.

NYCO Renaissance to present Tosca...Glyndebournenames new General Director...Sherrill Milnes celebrates 50 years at The Metropolitan Opera...Award- winning singer serenades stranded Eurostar passengers.

In part 1 on Oliver's Corner on La sonnambula, RenataScotto can hold a high C longer than you.

This week features Michael, The OC and Doug Dodson.

Why was Andrea Bocelli at the Richard Tucker Gala???...Another Opera Week in America has come and gone...More non-news with the New York City Opera revival...Opera Lyra Ottowa shuts down...Domingo survives galbladder scare.

In the Oliver's Corner final installment of The Magic Flute: The Hero's Journey and Peeta is Pamina.

This week features Michael, The OC and Doug Dodson.

Gotham Chamber Opera is kaput...Hvorostovsky comes back big...Leving cancels Lulu.

In part two of Oliver's Corner on The Magic Flute, Pamina wants to be sexy and sad, just like her mommy.  

This week features Michael, The OC and Doug Dodson.

San Francisco Opera names new General Director...The Met talks a bigger lobby and their future...New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players cancel Mikado over racial outcry...panties tossed at Jonas Kaufmann at The Proms...Opera's "sexiest" Met stars...Houston Grand Opera offers free renewals to out of work oil barons.

This week in Oliver's Corner: It's raining men - the dudes of the Magic Flute.

This week features Michael, The OC and Doug Dodson.

Loft Opera seems to have their shits together...Why doesn't anyone do contemporary operas again?...Why to program 'Murican opera...Opera News gets a redesign..."opera school" noise complaint.

In Oliver's Corner's final installment of Dialogues of the Carmelites: Blanche finally grows a pair.

This week features Michael, The OC, and Doug Dodson.

Metropolitan Opera to abandon what some call "blackface" for new Otello...Steve Jobs opera coming to Santa Fe...The trouble with digital classical music...WWII internment camp opera in Seattle...Here's a list of new operas people like...Australian opera singer called "faggot" by mope at basketball game...tenor sings during brain surgery.

In Oliver's Corner - Part 2 of Dialogues of the Carmelites: Introducing Soeur Luna de Ravenclaw.

This week features Michael, The OC, and Doug Dodson.

Sorry for the sound quality...we tried our best to repair.

Santa Fe Opera Has New Building...Hanoi Opera House...Mayor's Concert to Feature Area Vocalists...Helpmann Award winner Jennifer Rivera tells you the top 10 things you need to think about to sing...Hanoi opera house will be repainted the same color...First opera in Pidgin

This week in Oliver's Corner: Does being a nun mean you don't get to sing a cabaletta?  Part one of three on Dialogues of the Carmelites.

Guess Who Died?

This week features Michael, The OC, and Doug Dodson.