Opera Box Score

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Gesamtkunst-rag! Dec 04, 2020

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Wanna know what the OBS team looks like? Check out the video version of our show on The Dallas Opera Network… [@ 4 min] Weston tackles on an overlooked opera and encourages the team to, er, branch out in a new-ish segment called ‘Under Further Review’... [@ 41 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, Renée Fleming volunteers to get an MRI for the sake of science... operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Pandemia Cornucopia! Nov 25, 2020

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[@ 2 min] The OBS side reaches into the Listener Mailbag for notes on their Gilbert and Sullivan episode... [@ 11 min] During 'Chalk Talk', it’s Turkey Lurkey Time. Find out what each of the OBS team is thankful for this year... [@ 33 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill': pandemic be damned, Melbourne Opera is going forward with a new Ring cycle. Will it be a Ride of the Vaccines or an Audience-Dämmerung...? operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Lawrence Brownlee and Friends and Rivals! Nov 20, 2020

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Wanna know what the OBS team looks like? Check out the video version of our show on The Dallas Opera Network… [@ 3 min] It’s a classic NFC East match-up. Suiting up for Philadelphia, tenor Lawrence Brownlee meets your Dallas Opera Network team, to talk about singing the hardest music ever written, being an ambassador for opera to the Black community, and maybe a little Fantasy Football... [@ 40 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’... Middle Class Artist throws a flag on YouTube auditions, while Jonas Kaufmann wants YOU for Christmas... operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

The Very Model of a Modern Opera Podcast! Nov 13, 2020

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Wanna know what the OBS team looks like? Check out the video version of our show on The Dallas Opera Network… [@ 3 min] This week, in ‘Chalk Talk’… Some of us could use something on the lighter side… like good ol’ Gilbert and Sullivan. George patters about the best of G&S and fends off a little list questions from his colleagues, including why G&S still matters. (To some of us, anyway…) [@ 30 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’... Tragedy in Vienna, impostors in Brooklyn, and racists on Facebook… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Christine Goerke and other Nasty Women! Nov 06, 2020

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Wanna know what the OBS team looks like? Check out the video version of our show on The Dallas Opera Network… [@ 3 min] Firstly, the OBS team taped this week’s show on Monday November 2; secondly, they don’t talk politics. Kind of. Ashlee takes a page out of You-Know-Who’s playbook and sounds off about some Nasty Women in opera… [@ 29 min] It’s one of OBS’ biggest scores... When this helden soprano found out the OBS crew were doing an episode about Nasty Women, she said “Hold My Beer”. Christine Goerke goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Oliver and Ashlee to talk about her friendship with the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg and on singing Brünnhilde in a Mustang... [@ 59 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, the European opera houses shut down and everyone is writing angry letters about it… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

The Bootiful Benjamin Bernheim! Oct 30, 2020

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Wanna know what the OBS team looks like? Check out the video version of our show on The Dallas Opera Network… [@ 4 min] It’s our annual Hallowe’en Spooktacular this week… We talk terrifying operas, and watch some nightmarish scenes... [@ 18 min] And then… Oliver and Matt go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with the tall and talented tenor Benjamin Bernheim… [@ 46 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’... If you have to wear a mask to go to the opera, can it be a Hallowe’en mask…? operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Capework and Eyebrows! Oct 23, 2020

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Wanna know what the OBS team looks like? Check out the video version of our show on The Dallas Opera Network... [@ 3 min] On the show this week… Opera. Sports. Sports. Opera. Not as far apart as you might think. The OBS team tells you why... [@ 18 min] And then… co-host Matt Cummings revisits the induction of a beloved mezzo-soprano into the OBS Hall of Fame. Find out whose portrait gets to line the hallowed halls of the Operaland’s HQ... [@35 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’... More season announcements in one week than you’ve heard in the last six months... operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

The OBS on TDO! Oct 21, 2020

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Starting tonight, Wednesday, October 21st, Opera Box Score is joining The Dallas Opera Network. OBS? TDO? WTF? Alright, TDO Network brings a mixture of programming that educates, questions, and furthers classical music and the power of opera. With a diverse group of content creators from the opera industry, each series uniquely engages with its community in ways that go further than the just the typical live performance experience. What does that mean for you? Here’s how it works. Team OBS tapes a video - yes, video - version of the show that is released exclusively on The Dallas Opera Network on Wednesdays at 9 pm CT. A podcast version of the same show can be found on Fridays wherever you get your pods, and a terrestrial radio version is broadcast on WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago on Monday nights. Now, don’t panic. You still get exclusive interviews with opera artists, insights into the opera art form and all your opera headlines with our team’s hot takes, plus a healthy dose of sports talk and fifth grade humor. So, you get three chances to hear the OBS during the week, each week, every week. Hey, the show called America’s Talk Radio Show About Opera for a reason. Then again, George has been told he has a face for radio for a reason, too. It all starts tonight, Wednesday, October 21st, on TDO Network at 9 pm CT. All the OBS team will be there, and hope you will too. Visit dallasopera.org/tdo_network_episodes/ to check it out.

Afton Battle: An Inequality-Eradicating Ice Princess! Oct 14, 2020

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[@ 4 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’, George, Oliver and Matt talk GOATs. (You know... Greatest. Of. All. Time.) In the aftermath of tennis GOAT Rafael Nadal’s victory in the French Open, we throw down on opera’s GOATs... [@ 20 min] One of the first Black women to lead an American opera company, Afton Battle goes 'Inside the Huddle' with Ashlee and Oliver. The singer turned administrator pledges to eradicate inequalities and spotlight the talents and skills of people of color both on the stage and behind the scenes at Fort Worth Opera... [@ 51 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, could a painting save Covent Garden…? [Listener Alert!] Starting October 21st, Opera Box Score is joining The Dallas Opera Network. Check it out at: dallasopera.org/tdo_network_episodes/ www.operaboxscore.com www.facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

Rage Arias! Oct 07, 2020

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[@ 4 min] The OBS syndicate tackle a recent article in the 'Guardian' which argues that opera companies have been essential in making the return of live entertainment possible in the UK. How far might that assessment apply to opera in the US…? [@ 17 min] With all the madness of the past week, the OBS-ers figured you might want a calm-me-down playlist. Hear their recommendations on arias that’ll get you raging... [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0EHMHSd1xfCRmJd83VABiv?si=60lfhQ6qT5OeW_UfjjMGDQ] ...and then bring you back down peacefully… [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2dOsODafBLrZLeKKFCZMNR?si=T_uEQRsxScaZOyqB0xEkCA] [@ 48 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, one of the original Barihunks gives up his leather pants... www.operaboxscore.com www.facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

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