The #OperaTrash Podcast

In honor of Anna's birthday, she and Krista talk about all the good, bad and funny WTF moments and productions they've encountered in their opera learnings. They revisit Munich's production of Yeet the Baby, Coney Island Cosi and of course The Exterminating Angel. So many moments!

Do you want to be confused for a while? We halp! Anna and Krista review Verdi's Ernani, full of WTF and more twists than a bag of pretzels. You also get learnings on Victor Hugo's sex life and some weird Vietnamese religion. Good times.

It's a big week here in #OperaTrash Land - not only are Anna and Krista comparing productions of Rigoletto that the Met has produced, but they let you in on an exciting new thing the Met is doing for opera fans! Of course, due respect is paid to the much loved Coolio and Loretta Lynn first.

It's one-hit wonder time with Ponchielli's La Gioconda, and Anna and Krista get to spend more time trashing their favorite wannabe tenor. Anna also gives us her review of Rusalka at the Pittsburgh Opera, the ladies sing Allan Sherman songs, and they reminisce about board games from their childhoods. In other words, typical Monday night shenanigans.

Anna and Krista are taking a bit of a turn this week! This time, they're discussing specific productions of Verdi's Don Carlo/s (French or Italian, your choice). From the best (anything by Sir David McVicar) to the worst (take a damn guess), the ladies tell you all about their favorite Disaster Bi (Hans Christian Andersen excluded).

Anna and Krista have found a rare Verdi gem in Stiffelio, with its tale of betrayal, redemption and censorship. And of course they couldn't pass up the opportunity to rag on its star (alleged) tenor. They also bring lolz from Bayreuth and the saga of karma from Arena di Verona.

What would an opera by Ol' Slapnuts be without a little controversy? Anna and Krista talk about Idomeneo and the nefarious director who caused a shitstorm over a production of it in Berlin. And then they do what they normally do: go off on their usual brand of shenanigans including future plans for riffing on a not-the-tenor.

What happens when you record a podcast late at night? House of the Dragon gets ruined forever, you learn about baseball-infused Malort and the phrase "the deck where you play cornhole" and you hear a review of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen. Plot twist: Anna and Krista are sober!

After two weeks without them, Anna and Krista are back with the long-awaited review of Paul Hindemith's Cardillac. There's something interesting about this review, and it's a first for the ladies. Find out what that is as you listen to the story behind the opera, and listen as they talk about their childhood feels being wrung out by their two dedicaitons. Bonus content: advice from a real-life student loan servicer!

It's August, and the ladies have taken a couple of weekends off to recharge. In the meantime, they take you back to December 2020, when Anna did her best Drunj Nemorino during their review of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. And who can blame her, because her former and current opera husbands were opposite each other!