Opera Box Score

[@ 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operas, despite having some of the best music he ever wrote… [@ 27 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Angel Blue has withdrawn from her debut at Arena di Verona .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 s...

[@ 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 D...

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…! operabox...

[@ 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 @operaboxsc...

[@ 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, B...

[@ 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 @op...

[@ 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 a...

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… Joi...

[@ 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 fa...

[@ 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… operabox...

[@ 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,...

[@ 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_netw...

[@ 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…...

[@ 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...

[@ 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 th...

[@ 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,...

[@ 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… [@ 15 min] And then… Opera Philadelphia has just announced its ‘22-’23 season featuring friends of the show Larry Brownlee and David T. Little, and titles including ‘The Backwa...

[@ 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… [@ 29 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… There is definitely one artist who won’t be appearing onstage at Lincoln Center this year… SHOW NOT...

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

[@ 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...?! [@ 30 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Cancel culture kills Katherina’s classic co-production, and Central City celebra...

[@ 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… [@ 52 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’... Friends of the show abound in the '22-'23 season at Lyric Opera of Chicago, but which one of them will be starring in the Barrie Kosky production of &quo...

[@ 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… [@ 25 min] Then, in the ‘Listener Mailbag’... When is an opera not an opera…? [@ 32 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’…  Stage director Hans Neuenfels has died. Don’t r...

[@ 4 min] The OBS polyrhythmics induct a birthday boy into the OBS "Hall of Fame"… Here’s a hint: He’s an American ComPOser. He’s an American ComPOser. He’s an American Opera ComPOser. He’e an American ComPOser. [@ 34 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Zubin Mehta unloads some of his shares of Tesla stock so that the Zubin Mehta Hall can have an endowment... operaboxscore.com dallasopera.or...

[@ 4 min] Ashlee kicks off a new segment about the stories behind the musical moments that punctuate sports history… [@ 22 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Never before has a world premiere opera been so on brand for the OBS: “Gods of the Game: a Football Opera”… SHOW NOTES & LINKS John Tesh SNL Italia '90 opening ... ... and closing credits : HGO WHAT'S YOUR HOT TAKE? operaboxscore.c...