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| Titre | Date | Durée | |
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| Sex, Drugs, and Opera! ft. Ricky Ian Gordon | 03 Oct 2024 | 00:59:59 | |
[@ 2 min] We go Inside the Huddle with Ricky Ian Gordon. The prolific American composer of operas such as "A Coffin in Egypt," "The Grapes of Wrath," and "Orpheus and Euridice" has another credit to add: author! Ricky will share anecdotes from his new memoir, Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera. | |||
| The Bonnie Banks of Mumbai! ft. Vanessa Becerra | 26 Sep 2024 | 00:59:50 | |
[@ 4 min] We go Inside the Huddle with Vanessa Becerra. The Peruvian and Mexican American soprano is set to make her Chicago Opera Theater debut in the title role of Ferdinando Paer’s Leonora. She joins OBS for a frank conversation about how she distinguished herself as an artist and how her Latina identity opened up new opportunities. | |||
| The Gayest Opera Ever! ft. Garth Greenwell | 25 Jul 2024 | 00:59:53 | |
[@ 11 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with author Garth Greenwell whose acclaimed debut novel is to be produced as an opera with music by David T. Little and starring Karim Sulayman... | |||
| The Chaliapin Method! | 29 Sep 2022 | 01:02:57 | |
[@ 3 min] Season Eight is a season of firsts. Last week, we had an administrator from the Marketing Suite on the show. This week, we induct the first bass into the OBS ‘Hall of Fame’… | |||
| Brought to You by the Letter O! ft. Frank Luzi | 22 Sep 2022 | 00:51:34 | |
[@ 2 min] Festival O22 has arrived, and it has nothing to do with Oprah. We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Opera Philadelphia’s Frank Luzi for a play-by-play on one of the season’s biggest events… | |||
| Chicago is a Countertenor Town! ft. Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and Michael Skarke | 15 Sep 2022 | 01:10:44 | |
[@ 5 min] Season Eight of the OBS kicks off with the return of Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, our first three-peat ‘Inside the Huddle’ champ… | |||
| Season Seven Finale! ft. Ryan Speedo Green and Isabel Leonard | 01 Sep 2022 | 01:23:21 | |
[@ 5 min] It’s the Season 7 finale of the OBS, with another double-play from Oliver’s trip to Santa Fe Opera. He goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Ryan Speedo Green to talk about the bass-baritone’s debut at the festival on the heels of recovering from Covid… | |||
| Cleveland Doesn’t Rock! ft. Alexandra LoBianco | 25 Aug 2022 | 01:08:23 | |
[@ 7 min] It’s a double-play from Oliver’s trip to Santa Fe… First up, soprano Alexandra LoBianco goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ to talk about what you should do while waiting for your dramatic voice to ripen, and all the good vibrations we feel when we sing… | |||
| (Don't) Drill, Baby, Drill! | 18 Aug 2022 | 00:46:56 | |
This week… Oliver comes back from Santa Fe with four fabulous interviews. And Covid. So those highlights are gonna have to wait till next week… | |||
| Sashay Varnay! | 11 Aug 2022 | 01:06:25 | |
[@ 4 min] This week… in the OBS ‘Hall of Fame’, we dive into the career and legacy of the greatest dramatic soprano born in 20th century Sweden (whose name doesn’t rhyme with “Schmear-git Hilsson”)… | |||
| Most Highly Favored Lady! ft. Lila Palmer & Chloe Treat | 03 Aug 2022 | 01:00:51 | |
[@ 4 min] Librettist Lila Palmer and stage director Chloe Treat go ‘Inside the Huddle to talk about the world premiere of a secular opera (with music by Damian Geter) about a biblical event: the Annunciation. The show just opened at the Glimmerglass Festival and couldn’t have come at a better time, because, you know, it’s about a woman consenting to give birth... [@ 41 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Angela Gheorghiu warns, if you didn't study in Romania, be careful... | |||
| Don't Say the G-Word! ft. Matthew Aucoin! | 28 Jul 2022 | 01:03:32 | |
[@ 3 min] It’s a 2-point conversion when the OBS scores an interview with MacArthur “Don’t-say-the-G-word” Fellow Matthew Aucoin. The composer, conductor, and author goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Oliver to talk about his breakthrough opera “Eurydice”, and to come to the defense of that dreadful ballet sequence in “La Traviata”... | |||
| A Week of Bad Takes! ft. Emanuele Andrizzi | 21 Jul 2022 | 00:53:45 | |
[@ 4 min] This week… We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Opera Festival of Chicago’s Emanuele Andrizzi, to talk about a work that has paid a steep price for having been written just before Verdi’s more famous operas, despite having some of the best music he ever wrote… | |||
| The Coronation of Karen Slack! | 18 Jul 2024 | 00:59:23 | |
[@ 5 min] We go 'Inside the Huddle' with Karen Slack, the lirico-spinto soprano who rose to prominence in prima donna roles like Butterfly, Tosca, and Aida, but more and more is in demand as a galvanizing voice for African-American artists working in opera and classical music... | |||
| The Football [Soccer] Opera! ft. Scott Stroman | 14 Jul 2022 | 01:03:43 | |
[@ 4 min] This week… George goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Scott Stroman, artistic director of Highbury Opera Theatre and composer of “Fever Pitch,” an opera about football. And by football, we mean soccer… | |||
| Best of... Ketelsen and Heggie! | 07 Jul 2022 | 00:56:36 | |
The OBS team was off for Independence Day, but manages to bring back two stellar ‘Inside the Huddle’ segments from past episodes… | |||
| American Opera League Trading Cards! | 30 Jun 2022 | 01:09:39 | |
[@ 3 min] This week, the OBS geniuses launch a new segment called 'Singer Trading Cards'! They start with the American League and swap some great artists of the recent past that you’ll want to add to your collection, too... | |||
| The Google Doodle Bump! ft. Joyce El-Khoury | 22 Jun 2022 | 01:00:03 | |
[@ 5 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with soprano Joyce El-Khoury, currently starring under the baton of Riccardo Muti in “Un Ballo in Maschera” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. And that’s just days after being named the Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year by Dallas Opera… [@ 33 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Both the San Antonio Symphony and Simon Estes are throwing in the towel, Bogdan Roscic is not throwing in the towel, and Barrie Kosky is kinda throwing in the towel… | |||
| Problematic Brothers! | 17 Jun 2022 | 01:11:31 | |
[@ 3 min] It’s the return of the beloved ‘Spring Training for Your Ears’ segment… Sound like a pro when you talk about the three operas that a real opera fan should know, but that no one has time to listen to… | |||
| Bonus Points for a Happy Ending! | 10 Jun 2022 | 00:55:57 | |
[@ 3 min] In ‘Crunching the Numbers’… You’ve always known opera is gay. Nicklausse and Hoffman. Octavian and the Marschallin. But it’s Pride Month, and the OBS family are celebrating those operas that are explicitly gay using a score card to determine which is the gayest opera of all… [@ 36 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Turns out French tenor Roberto Alagna is not a fan of iconic Italian auteur Pier Paolo Pasolini, while the first stills from the Leonard Bernstein biopic might get the film canceled before its release… | |||
| The Free Throw Finale! | 27 May 2022 | 00:01:36 | |
This week… We wrap up a fabulous run on TDO Network with a video-only episode. The OBS Fab Five play an opera-themed version of HORSE on the basketball court… with a surprising victor… | |||
| The Summer League! | 20 May 2022 | 01:00:06 | |
[@ 3 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’… Just as summer baseball starts to heat up, a bullpen full of opera summer festival seasons steps up to the plate. We’ll give you the lineups of each team and tell you which balls to keep your eyes on… | |||
| All-Star Break! | 13 May 2022 | 00:46:26 | |
[@ 2 min] This week… It’s one of those ‘Best-of…’, podcast-only, shows! The OBS wrecking crew revisit Oliver’s ‘Inside the Huddle’ segment with tenor Charles Castronovo: an interview that was so good, Oliver forgot what they talked about… | |||
| Stage Director Smackdown! ft. Amy Hutchison | 06 May 2022 | 00:59:04 | |
[@ 2 min] This week… The OBS skeleton crew go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with guest co-host and stage director Amy Hutchison to find out how she and her career survived when COVID hit Operaland… | |||
| You Can't Scream! ft. Greer Grimsley and Brad Sisk | 11 Jul 2024 | 01:05:41 | |
[@ 4 min] Alright, this week we go Inside the Huddle with Greer Grimsley. The American bass-baritone returns to Santa Fe Opera for Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith’s "The Righteous," which receives its world premiere on July 13! | |||
| Don’t Say Heldentenor! ft. Ian Koziara | 29 Apr 2022 | 00:56:22 | |
[@ 4 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with tenor Ian Koziara to talk about performing “Fidelio” for the deaf, and about having a darker, lower tenor voice that works well in German repertoire… without saying the world “Held_______”... [@ 34 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… The Met’s “Lucia” is a flop, but director Simon Stone has already been rehired… | |||
| Valery Gergiev's Secret Milan Restaurant! | 22 Apr 2022 | 00:43:12 | |
[@ 3 min] This week… In ‘Sportzando!’, Ashlee draws a straight line from opera houses to ESPN, via baseball. Trust the OBS bullpen: it works. | |||
| Panic-Casting 'Tosca'! | 15 Apr 2022 | 00:54:46 | |
[@ 2 min] This week, a personal hero of Oliver’s is inducted into the OBS Hall of Fame. A few hints: he’s one of his generation’s pioneering Rossini singers, he’s from Queens, and Sir Georg Solti once told him that he has Mozart and Verdi in his throat… | |||
| New Seasons, Same OBS! | 08 Apr 2022 | 01:08:05 | |
[@ 3 min] This week in ‘Chalk Talk’… The season announcements are coming in faster than Anna Netrebko’s separation from Putin, and harder than Will Smith at an awards ceremony. The OBS Crazies talk you through all the season details you need to know… | |||
| Handel Operas: The Final Four! | 01 Apr 2022 | 01:04:11 | |
[@ 4 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’… It’s still March and the OBS ballers are still mad like Lucia, as they crown the OBS’s 2022 Winningest Composer of the last three hundred years… | |||
| The Devil Wears Pravda! | 25 Mar 2022 | 01:01:46 | |
[@ 4 min] This week… One of the original ‘Inside the Huddle’ guests returns. And this time the OBS team has proof! It’s Jake Heggie. For real. Jake Heggie. (Oliver, please make sure you are recording…) | |||
| Also Sprach Arvo Pärt! | 18 Mar 2022 | 00:44:26 | |
[@ 3 min] This week, in ‘Chalk Talk’... Is it that time of year already? With the Men’s NCAA March Madness tourney set, the OBS b-ballers create their own bracket to pick the winningest opera composer of the last 300 years… | |||
| The Five McVicars! | 11 Mar 2022 | 00:50:03 | |
[@ 3 min] This week in ‘Chalk Talk’… The OBS critics take a look at the Metropolitan Opera’s recently announced ‘22-‘23 season, including 5 David McVicar shows, 4 new productions, 3 ‘Traviata’ casts, 2 Yoncheva role debuts, and a partridge in a pear tree… | |||
| Opera is Not Political? | 04 Mar 2022 | 01:02:14 | |
There’s really only one thing on our collective minds right now. To give you some relief from the horrific news coming out of Ukraine, the OBS-ers talk about politics in opera. ‘Cause those two things go together like peanuts and Crackerjacks… | |||
| Everyone’s First Opera is Carmen! ft. Daniela Candillari | 25 Feb 2022 | 00:48:06 | |
[@ 5 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Daniela Candillari who was just named principal conductor of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. She talks about her very recent conducting debut at the Met on Aucoin’s “Eurydice” and geeks out with Oliver on... a Mozart piano concerto...?! | |||
| Five Scarlattis Deep! ft. Sir Emanuele Andrizzi | 04 Jul 2024 | 01:17:28 | |
[@ 5 min] This week…we are halfway through the Major League Baseball season! Which means it's time for us to swap some Trading Cards: American Composer Edition. And there are so many! Copland! Gershwin! Floyd!...(slowing) uh…Dominick Argento… (stammering) uh … Philip Glass? Plus, George sends us another postcard from abroad! What iconic Italian opera house will he call B-tier this time? | |||
| The House Edge! ft. Mathilda Edge | 18 Feb 2022 | 01:14:47 | |
[@ 6 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Mathilda Edge. The rising American lyric-dramatic soprano has already accepted a tenure-track position at Oberlin, just as her singing career is set to launch… | |||
| Broad Stripes and Bright Stars! ft. Scott Ramsay | 11 Feb 2022 | 00:51:21 | |
[@ 4 min] Get ready for Super Bowl LVI happening this Sunday in L.A.! Tenor Scott Ramsay goes 'Inside the Huddle' with the OBS Pack-haters to talk about the highs and lows of singing the national anthem on the gridiron… | |||
| The Perfect American! | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:55:25 | |
[@ 4 min] The OBS polyrhythmics induct a birthday boy into the OBS "Hall of Fame"… Here’s a hint: | |||
| Sportzando! | 28 Jan 2022 | 00:47:35 | |
[@ 4 min] Ashlee kicks off a new segment about the stories behind the musical moments that punctuate sports history… | |||
| The Trill of Victory! | 21 Jan 2022 | 01:00:13 | |
[@ 3 min] The Australian Open kicks off and in the early rounds a lot of Australian qualifiers will be eliminated. The OBS brings back its brutal ‘TKO’ segment and offers you an all-Australian match-up... | |||
| The Opera Time Capsule! ft. Ann Toomey | 14 Jan 2022 | 01:20:07 | |
[@3 min] In 'Chalk Talk'... Opera America asks "What would you put in an opera time capsule?" We answer, "You mean, in addition to pork scratchings?” | |||
| Season Highlight Reel! | 07 Jan 2022 | 01:00:43 | |
[@ 4 min] In 'Chalk Talk'... 2021 is in the record books. We take a look back at the most impactful stories of last year… | |||
| Our Favorite Things: Vol. 2! [Doubleheader Part II!] | 31 Dec 2021 | 01:15:12 | |
With the OBS crew enjoying a much-earned fortnight off, George shares some of the team's favorite segments from 2021, including going 'Inside the Huddle' with Barbara Hannigan and Will Liverman, and the return of that controversial Euro 2020 of Opera competition...Wherever you are, however you're celebrating the new year... thanks for making opera, and the OBS, part of your listening life!operaboxscore.comdallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-scorefacebook.com/obschi1@operaboxscoreIG operaboxscore | |||
| Our Favorite Things: Vol. 2! [Doubleheader Part I!] | 24 Dec 2021 | 01:16:00 | |
With the OBS crew enjoying a much-earned fortnight off, George shares some of the team's favorite segments from 2021, including going 'Inside the Huddle' with Duke Kim and Key'mon Murrah, and the return of that controversial Opera March Madness competition...Wherever you are, however you're celebrating... thanks for making opera, and the OBS, part of your listening life!operaboxscore.comdallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-scorefacebook.com/obschi1@operaboxscoreIG operaboxscore | |||
| The Solti Sound! | 27 Jun 2024 | 01:05:54 | |
[@ 3 min] This week…Beyonce might have the most Grammys, but number two ain’t bad, especially if it comes with an OBS Hall of Fame nomination. Find out what Hungarian conductor has made the cut for our most prestigious award… | |||
| A Positive Swing! ft. Mané Galoyan | 18 Jun 2024 | 01:08:25 | |
[@ 5 min] Alright, this week…we go inside the huddle with Mané Galoyan. The Armenian soprano, an alumna of Houston Grand Opera studio and prizewinner at Operalia, is set to make her Santa Fe Opera debut next month as Violetta in La Traviata. We’ll find out how her ‘Murican training prepared her to sing in the big 'Murican houses. [@ 31 min] The stats are in from the Met’s most experimental season yet! We crunch those numbers... [@ 49 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’…the opera world mourns the untimely death of Belgian soprano Jodie Devos. GET YOUR VOICE HEARD | |||
| Bad Dad, Good Dad! ft. Julian Prégardien | 13 Jun 2024 | 01:04:43 | |
[@ 4 min] This Sunday is Father’s Day, but unfortunately, George Cederquist is out of town, so our good dad role model can’t help us out this week. We’ll cover some bad dads in opera to learn what NOT to celebrate this weekend… [@ 29 min] A free throw from tenor Julian Prégardien, son of tenor Christoph Pregardien, who describes what its like having a famous father in the same fach. Faching fathers, I tell you. [@ 43 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’…what time is it? Yannick Nezet-Seguin knows… GET YOUR VOICE HEARD | |||
| Meet Me in St. Louis! ft. Paul Groves and Andrew Jorgensen | 06 Jun 2024 | 01:06:15 | |
[@ 3 min] It’s an Opera Theater double-header! First we go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with tenor Paul Groves who is set to sing the title role in Philip Glass’ "Galileo Galilei", the OG science-denial show (before everyone was doing it...) | |||
| Replay: Huw Montague Rendall & Remembering Renata Scotto | 30 May 2024 | 01:13:09 | |
[@ 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... | |||