With the 2018-2019 season winding down, but the summer festivals are yet to begin, things are a little quiet in Operaland.  But don’t worry, the OBS guys are here to get loud, with a show featuring a plethora of sounds clips...  The guys ‘Crunch the Numbers’ and recap the results from the 2019 International Opera Awards which took place last week in London...  It’s a brand new segment called ‘Spring Training For Your Ears’: they'll get you ready for how to listen to any recitativo secco that might be coming your way during the summer season...  In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel takes one for the team...

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Spring Training For Your Ears!

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[@ 5 min] Harry Bicket, music director of Santa Fe Opera, takes a ‘Free Throw’ on being pigeonholed as an Early Music specialist. This summer, Maestro Bicket conducts "Don Giovanni"; we ask him to weigh in on his favorite act of a Mozart opera…

[@ 19 min] In 'Chalk Talk'... It’s all very well for us to bust a bracket finding the Best School of Music voice program. But what are those departments actually teaching, and how does that relate to what a modern freelance performer actually needs to know…?

[@ 39 min] It’s a bonus ‘Free Throw’ from tenor Jonathan Tetelman, making a double debut at the Met, starting this Saturday in "La Rondine"…

[@ 49 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… major awards, a scandal (or not) at the NY Phil, budget cuts in Paris, and all hail the Tempo Police...

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Bicket, Tetelman, Cederquist & Hardgrave

[@ 3 min] The Final Four bracket for the Best School for Singing is here. Will a top seed prevail...?

[@ 26 min] In 'Listener Mailbag,' PJ and Donald give us a preview of  “La Rondine” at the Met, which features the house debut of Friend of the Show Emily Pogorelc...

[@ 31 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill,’ we ignore opera completely and talk about the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for once...!

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The Boilermäkelers!

[@ 4 min] It’s the East and West regions of the Best School of Music bracket. Who will join IU and UNT in the Final Four?

[@ 25 min] We go 'Inside the Huddle' with baritone Reginald Smith Jr. with the 2021 Cardiff Singer of the World contestant wrapping up his MVP season at Lyric Opera of Chicago as star of Terence Blanchard’s "Champion" and Amonasro in "Aida"...

[@ 52 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Voice majors feel seen by Beyoncé...

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Bruins vs. Baritones! ft. Reginald Smith, Jr.

[@ 3 min] March Madness is here! In 'Chalk Talk', we work through a bracket of our own to pick the top school of music in the country…

[@ 26 min] Baritone Lucas Meachem returns to OBS to take a 'Free Throw' on developing young voices and how to decide on where one should get their undergraduate degree if they want to make it to the pros…

[@ 37 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Malfunctions at the Met lead to making lemonade out of lemons…

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The Village vs. The Factory! ft. Lucas Meachem

[@ 4 min] We go 'Inside the Huddle' with Hera Hyesang Park. The South Korean soprano’s sophomore album was just released and she tells us about how she was photographed for the album cover...

[@ 29 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Swifties got the "Eras" tour and the Beehive got the "Renaissance" tour. Lookout, opera fans: Kathleen Battle is back with the "Battle Fatigue" tour...

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