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American Opera League Trading Cards: The Return! Jul 06, 2023

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As Team OBS takes the week off for the Fourth, enjoy a rerun of our Independence Day show from last year, when we launched 'Singer Trading Cards', a look at the American League and some great artists of the recent past you’ll want to add to your collection... We're back with an all-new show on Thursday, July 13, when bass Morris Robinson goes 'Inside the Huddle' to talk football, opera, and football. Join us! GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Heldenmommy Emerita! Jun 29, 2023

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[3 min] The Santa Fe Opera’s current season starts this weekend, and we get a field report, but not from PJ... [9 min] It’s bonus content from Oliver’s recent trip to the Boston Early Music Festival, when German soprano Dorothee Mields takes a 'Free Throw' on the subject of… birds? [@ 24 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Friend of the Show Christine Goerke is cheering us ALL on; especially you, Tulsa Opera... SHOW NOTES https://www.santafeopera.org/ https://bemf.org/2023-festival/ https://tulsaworld.com/life-entertainment/local/tulsa-opera-cancels-most-of-2023-2024-season-general-director-resigns/article_dea90f1a-1148-11ee-ade5-df43441edcaf.html GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Eurovision Meets Opera! ft. David Alden Jun 22, 2023

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[@ 3 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Olivier-award winning stage director David Alden, who is creating a new production of “The Flying Dutchman” for the Santa Fe Opera. George is in New Mexico with his OBS poncho, bolo tie, and handheld recorder to get the scoop… [21 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… ticket sales are inching upward at the Met *whilst* glitter rains down at Glyndebourne… SHOW NOTES https://www.santafeopera.org/whats-on/the-flying-dutchman/ https://apnews.com/article/metropolitan-opera-box-office-3ef69fdb589564d08bd596224c18dcd7 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/15/just-stop-oil-protesters-glyndebourne-opera-festival GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Don't Cancel Handel! ft. Jonathan Woody Jun 15, 2023

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[@ 4 min] Live from the Boston Early Music Festival, Oliver goes 'Inside the Huddle' with Jonathan Woody. The bass-baritone and composer just wrapped up performances of the Festival’s centerpiece opera "Circé" as one of only two Black artists in the cast of dozens, but he’s not calling for the cancelation of Baroque music altogether (like *some* people we know...) [@ 32 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… the plot of "Die Frau ohne Schatten" explained at last... SHOW NOTES https://bemf.org/ https://apnews.com/article/strauss-opera-die-frau-sopranos-san-francisco-d160124af7959cfcbf064ca26ccb29b8 GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

A Kaija Saariaho Tribute! Jun 08, 2023

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[@ 4 min] We induct the latest-departed great composer into the OBS HOF… [@ 38 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill”... Dude, where’s our Music Director? GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Summer and Speedo! Jun 01, 2023

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[@ 2 min] We revisit our (virtual) Summer 2021 opera road trip when we stopped in Knoxville for a special ‘Hall of Fame’... [@ 34 min] PJ is back with a ‘Listener Mailbag’ report from “The Flying Dutchman” at the Met… [@ 38 min] It’s a blast from the past with Oliver’s Summer 2022 trip to Santa Fe to get Ryan Speedo Green ‘Inside the Huddle’… We’re back with an all-new show on Thursday, June 8th… Join us! GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Room to Grow! ft. Whitney Morrison May 25, 2023

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[@ 4 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with soprano Whitney Morrison, the Chicago native who created the role of Yasmine Miller in Daniel Bernard Roumain and Anna Deveare Smith’s “The Walkers” at Lyric Opera of Chicago, where Whitney is the company’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence… [@ 28 min] It’s not a field report from our friend PJ!, but from George at the 2023 Opera America conference in Pittsburgh. See if he can find out the consensus from his peers on how many operas Handel wrote… [@ 45 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Breaking News: Met Orchestra Not Bored… SHOW NOTES https://www.athloneartists.com/artists/whitney-morrison/ https://web.cvent.com/event/4923e5a9-e47e-4b61-ab89-5486007df183/summary https://operawire.com/metropolitan-opera-orchestra-fires-back-at-nathalie-stutzmann-comment-in-new-york-times/ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/16/turbocharge-philanthropy-conga-to-beethoven-ditch-the-ukeleles-10-ways-to-save-classical-music GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

The Dead Man Walking Diet! ft. Ryan McKinny May 18, 2023

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[@ 4 min] We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with American bass-baritone Ryan McKinny, who will reprise his role as Joseph De Rocher when “Dead Man Walking” finally makes its Met debut next season. Oliver talks to Ryan about that Jake Heggie opera, as well the Heggie piece he’ll tour with “Music of Remembrance”… [@ 27 min] In ‘Free Throw’… Apple Classical. Weston. ‘Nuff said… [@ 35 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Is LA Opera finally rid of the nightmare that is Plácido Domingo…? We’re back with an all-new show next week when George reports back from the 2023 Opera America conference in Pittsburgh. Join us…! SHOW NOTES https://ryanmckinny.com/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/arts/music/los-angeles-opera-placido-domingo.html GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Elektra Complex, or The Mother’s Day Episode! May 11, 2023

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[@ 2 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’, Matt and Weston make you grateful that - whatever your issues are with your mother - at least she isn’t Clytemnestra… [@ 34 min] Then, ‘Listener Mailbag’ entries abound from NYC… [@ 38 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… “Can we live without the phone for just one damn hour?”… We’re back with an all-new show next week when we go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with baritone Ryan McKinny, part of the US tour of Jake Heggie’s “Music of Remembrance”. Join us…! SHOW NOTES https://www.inquirer.com/entertainment/classical/yannick-nezet-seguin-ryan-speedo-green-kimmel-center-20230507.html GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Dream Teams & Ladies' Nights! Apr 27, 2023

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[@ 3 min] Imagine the best sports contest ever. Now imagine that turned into an opera. In our ‘Sportzando!' segment, we reveal what we’re imagining… [@ 26 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… it’s Ladies Night at the BBC Proms… We’re off next week for the annual OBS Office Retreat and Team Building Exercises (yikes!) but we’re back on Thursday, May 11 with an all-new show. Join us… SHOW NOTES https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/20/female-conductors-to-open-and-close-bbc-proms-for-first-time GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

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