The OBS cohort wrap up Season 5 with a 'Best of..." show featuring highlights from the past year, including...

[@ 4 min] ...a tribute to Italian soprano Mirella Freni...

[@ 19 min] ...an 'Inside the Huddle' segment with last year’s Grammy Award winner for Best Classical Vocal Solo album, Lebanese-American tenor Karim Sulayman...

[@ 40 min] ...Camacho and Cummings facing off in a brutal ‘TKO’ match featuring mad scenes, with conductor Anthony Barrese as the judge…

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[@ 4 min and 39 min] We climb into the Wayback Machine for two ‘Inside the Huddle’ segments (taped in back-to-back weeks, no less) from August 2023...

[@ 29 min] And then… The ‘Listener Mailbag’ overflows with new listeners and old friends...

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Replay: Huw Montague Rendall & Remembering Renata Scotto

[@ 2 min] The second ever World Opera Forum is set to kick off early next month in Los Angeles. To preview this global gathering, (this United Nations of Opera, if you will), we go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with an American delegate, Houston Grand Opera general director and CEO Khori Dastoor...

[@ 37 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… the Royal news continues, and only two boos for a new Ring Cycle: the crowd loved it...!

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The United Nations of Opera! ft. Khori Dastoor

[@ 2 min] FOS Francesca Zambello and composer Christopher Tin recently changed the ending of "Turandot" at the Kennedy Center. We’re taking a page from their book to see what problematic productions might also be in need of a refreshed finale...

[@ 20 min] And then... PJ files two ecstatic field reports from the Met: one is a rock concert and the other is all about the Boy...

[@ 24 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… stories about Beethoven’s hair and Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s heart...

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[Kathleen] Battle Royale!

[@ 4 min] This week, 'Hometown Team' Chicago Opera Theater announced its new season. Lawrence Edelson joins us to unpack the first full season he programmed as the company’s recently appointed General Director...

[@ 38 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… We have the latest Royal news. Not Kate and William, or Meghan and Harry; it’s the newly-named Royal Ballet and Opera...

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The Ballet Episode! ft. Lawrence Edelson

[@ 4 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with the newly-minted general director of Opera Philadelphia: it’s the return of Friend of the Show Anthony Roth Costanzo, reaping the benefits of the OBS bump...

[@ 27 min] We dip into the ‘Listener Mailbag’ on your reactions to our recent interview with Extinction Rebellion and the results of our Sweet Sixteen Schools of Singing showdown...

[@ 32 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, Friend of the Show Huw Montague Rendall will sing Billy Budd in Vienna. If you’ve ever wanted to meet Oliver Camacho in person, he will be sleeping outside the Staatsoper for the entire run...

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