The Indie Opera Podcast

Chuck Sachs interviews Lembit Beecher Composer of Sky on Swings, which will have it's premiere September 20 - 29 part of Philadelphia Opera's festival O 2018

Missy Mazzoli and Melissa Smey join Peter, Brooke and Walker to talk about the New York premiere of Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's chamber opera, PROVING UP this September 26 and 28,  Miller Theater at Columbia University as well as other works by Mazzoli and the new Chamber Opera Initiative of Miller Theater.

Peter, Brooke and Chuck engage in an rousing roundtable about opera productions from near and far, including Opera Theater of St. Louis, Opera Saratoga and the Mostly Mozart Festival, as well as the Recipients of the Commissioning Grants for Women Composers Kamala Sankaram, Jennifer Higdon, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Michi Wiancko. Also featured on this episode are Chuck's interviews with directors Owen Horsley and Brittany Goodwin from dell'Arte Opera Ensemble's 2018 Festival.

Check out Summer Festivals at Bard Summerscape, Bard Music Festival, Cincinnati Opera, Chautauqua Opera Festival, Cincinnati Opera Summer Festival, and the Glimmerglass Festival.

Laura Kaminsky, composer of the most frequently performed 21st Century opera, "As One", as well as "Some Light Emerges" and "Today It Rains." Cited in The Washington Post as "one of the top 35 female composers in classical music."

The Grimeborn Festival in London, Glimmerglass to premiere Jeanine Tesori’s “Blue” in 2019, Odyssey Opera in Boston’s US premiere of Gounod’s “La Reine de Saba”, Tornonto's Bicycle Opera Project premieres “The Llandovery Castle”, and the New York Opera Fest’s final week.

Martina Arroyo's Prelude to Performance is holding 2 free events, a masterclass Wednesday with Metropolitan Opera soprano, Sharon Sweet and An Afternoon of Opera Highlights! The Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island starts their run of Patience, Concert:nova, premieres "The Bradbury Tattoos", And Cincinnati Opera will present the US Premiere "Another Brick in the Wall"

Opera On Tap Playground OPera; Hansel and Gretel, VPR Opera's Women of Salt and Longing, Martina Arroyo's Prelude to Performance Masterclass with Ken Benson.

Laura Lee Everett tells us everything we need to know about the Women's Opera Network, as well as about the various grants, mentorships and other programs to support and develop professional women in opera. How things have changed for the better (or worse) in the past 25 years.

We have an interview with Jennifer Peterson, creator of the Handel Warehouse, a daylong workshop at the National Opera Center June 1, 2018.