Opera Box Score

[@ 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”)… [@ 48 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… A different Swedish soprano is inducted into a German Hall of Fame, a place less exclusive than the OBS ‘HOF’… operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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... operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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”... [@ 39 min] And then… Should all seats be created equal in the opera house? An article in ‘The New Yorker’ argues about the inequality of how we watch live performances… [@ 46 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Opera America apologizes for its first apology, and a certain Sondra is back on the market… operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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operas, despite having some of the best music he ever wrote… [@ 27 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Angel Blue has withdrawn from her debut at Arena di Verona. We suspect that if she were still a young artist, she might also have been called “more narcissistic and entitled than ever” by THE PEOPLE WE ARE PAYING TO LEAD US… operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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… [@ 26 min] And then… It’s the return of ‘Monday Evening Quarterback’, when George reviews Covent Garden’s “Così fan tutte” and “Alcina” at Glyndebourne… [@ 37 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Rene Papé is either a fully functioning alcoholic or a homophobe. Or possibly both. Stay tuned as we wade through this PR nightmare… operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

The OBS team was off for Independence Day, but manages to bring back two stellar ‘Inside the Huddle’ segments from past episodes… [@ 1 min] It’s an interview with heart-throb American bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen from November 2021... [@ 32 min] The OBS re-confirms that they did, in fact, interview composer Jake Heggie last March… The OBS is back with an all-new show on Thursday, July 14…! operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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... [@ 45 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’... Jonas Kaufmann will bite off an ear for love, but he won’t do that... operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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… operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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… [@ 57 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Key’mon Murrah continues to benefit from the OBS bump, and Brigitte Fassbaender reveals the love of her life… operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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… operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

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… Watch the madness: https://www.thedallasopera.tv/opera-box-score/season:1/videos/the-free-throw-finale The team is off for Memorial Day, and then back with an all-new show released on Thursday June 9 at 9 pm CT… Join us! operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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… [@ 43 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… ARC is going to CAI and Will Liverman is the next Beverly Sills… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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… [@ 29 min] And then… It’s a replay of the very first ‘Sportzando!’ segment, one that was so good, the OBS name-droppers didn’t even have a name for it… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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… [@ 12 min] And then… Amy and George go head to head in an epic, five-round ‘TKO’ with two deep rosters of stage directors battling it out for best production... [@ 42 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Uh oh, the hammer - or is that the sickle? - falls on another Russian soprano at the Met… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] This week… In ‘Sportzando!’, Ashlee draws a straight line from opera houses to ESPN, via baseball. Trust the OBS bullpen: it works. [@ 17 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Valery Gergiev is in the news again? More like Valery Grifter-giev. operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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… [@ 35 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… COVID is over… in Atlanta, so you are now free to move to Georgia and vote in their gubernatorial election… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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… [@ 32 min] And then… “Fire Shut Up In My Bones” is, well, on fire.  The OBS QBs play ‘Monday Evening Quarterback’ and review the recent PBS screening… [@ 47 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Anna, Anna, Anna, what have you done this time? operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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… [@ 41 min] And then… From the ‘Listener Mailbag’, you get the skinny on Jakub Józef Orlinski. Was he nude in Covent Garden’s ‘Theodora’, or was it false advertising…? [@ 45 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… The boycott of the boycotting of boycotted artists has begun! That means you, Ildar Abdrazakov… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 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…) [@ 26 min] Then, in ‘Chalk Talk’… It’s Week Two of March Madness 2022 when Ashlee and Weston fill out their portions of the bracket for the winningest composer of the past 400 years (minus Mozart, Verdi and Puccini…) [@ 41 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Don’t ever, EVER heckle one of the OBS's ‘Inside the Huddle’ guests. EV-ER… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore