Tonight the OBS team gets you ready for the holidays. We reveal some of our favorite holiday opera recordings and share a few things from our Christmas lists...

But first, the biggest story of 2017 continues: conductor James Levine, who was accused by four different men of sexual abuse, and who has since been suspended from his position as Music Director Emeritus at the Metropolitan Opera, has now spoken publicly about these accusations. We’ll tell you what’s surprising about his statement...

And later, it’s ‘The Two Minute Drill’. You get all your opera headlines from the past week and our hot takes on them...

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