[@ 2 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with ​​Megan Gillis, the co-founder and executive director of City Lyric Opera in New York City, to talk about “Uncovered”, the company’s current world premiere production…

[@ 19 min] And then… it’s another 'Listener Mailbag' (but not from the Bronx): intermission at the Met’s “Don Carlo”…

[@ 24 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Hooligans and hecklers are not just for the stadium. Opera has reached a new low as some jackhole at the Royal Opera House boos the performance of a child…

We’re off next week for Thanksgiving, then back with an all-new show on Thursday, December 1…

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[@ 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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Queerbait Casting! ft. Anthony Roth Costanzo

[@ 2 min] The opera world says goodbye to the legendary Sir Andrew Davis...

[@ 25 min] We go 'Inside the Huddle' with John Mark Rozendaal, a musician and Extinction Rebellion activist who disrupted the Met’s “Tannhäuser” last winter...
 
[@ 47 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’: all aboard the Caballé Express...!

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The SAD News Train ft. Extinction Rebellion

[@ 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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To Boo or Not to Boo! ft. Megan Gillis

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