POPeracast

POP Favorites Oriana Falla and Arnold Livingston Geis join POPeracast host Jennifer Miller Hammel to discuss their path to opera, getting friend-zone'd, 1950's kitsch, and the upcoming production of Elixer of Love. https://orianafalla.com/ https://www.arnoldlivingstongeis.com/ Get your tickets to Elixer of Love (or season tickets?!) now at https://www.pacificoperaproject.com/

POPeracast host Jennifer Miller-Hammel discusses the 50's inspired production of Elixer of Love with conductor Kyle Naig, and they also preview the concept of POP's January 2023 imersive baroque opera house experience Ercole su'l Termodonte. https://www.kylenaig.com/ Get your tickets to Elixer of Love (or season tickets?!) now at https://www.pacificoperaproject.com/  

POPeracast host Jennifer Miller Hammel discusses the behind the scenes aspect of POP's most technically ambitions show yet with long-time POP costumer Maggie Green and Artistic Director Josh Shaw. Subscribe to POPeracast! https://poperacast.libsyn.com/ Into the Woods is SOLD OUT! Don't miss out again! 2022-23 Season Tickets available at https://www.pacificoperaproject.com/season-tickets

Jennifer Miller Hammel discusses the 2022-23 season with POP Artistic Director Josh Shaw.  For the first time full season tickets are available! Get yours now at https://www.pacificoperaproject.com/season-tickets

POPeracast host Jennifer Miller Hammel introduces POP audiences to important new opera I Can't Breath with special guests composer Leslie Burrs and librettist Brandon J. Gibson.   Get your tickets now for the west coast premier of I Can't Breath. Purchase Tickets El Portal Theatre 5269 Lankershim Blvd North Hollywood, CA May 13, 2022 | 8:00 May 14, 2022 | 6:00 May 15, 2022 | 3:00 ​

Jennifer Miller Hammel catches up with one of POP's favorite operatic power couples, Megan and Andrew Potter!  Come see them rumble the house with all the low notes! Get your tickets to Iolanta NOW! March 26 at 7:30pm March 27 at 3:00pm Aratani Theater, Los Angeles

Jennifer Miller Hammel discusses Iolanta with tenor Benjamin Werley and baritone Simon Barrad, Count Vaudemont and Duke Robert in POP's production.  This dynamic duo prove that tenors and baritones can get along! Get your tickets to Iolanta NOW! March 20 and 27 at 3pm, March 26 at 7:30pm Aratani Theater, Los Angeles

POPeracast is joined by Scene Change, the National Association for the Blind Performing Arts Division podcast, for a joint episode with the Iolanta creative team including Artistic Director Josh Shaw, soprano Christina Jones, and conductor Isaac Selya.   Special Thanks to Lizzy Muhammed-Park and Katelyn MacIntyre of Scene Change for the collaboration on the joint episode! Get your tickets to Iolan...

POPeracast is joined by Scene Change, the National Association for the Blind Performing Arts Division podcast, for a joint episode with the Iolanta creative team including Artistic Director Josh Shaw, soprano Christina Jones, and conductor Isaac Selya.   Special Thanks to Lizzy Muhammed-Park and Katelyn MacIntyre of Scene Change for the collaboration on the joint episode! Get your tickets to Iolan...

POPeracast host Jennifer Miller Hammel catches up with Erin Theodorakis and Daniel Scofield to discuss the questionable parenting received by Hansel & Gretel, and we finally get to hear from the crazy kids themselves Kara Morgan and Emily Rosenberg. Will the kiddos make it out?  Find out November 13,14,20,21 at the family friendly time of 5pm atop the hill at Forest Lawn Glendale. Visit pacificope...

POPeracast host Jennifer Miller Hammel catches up with Melanie Ashkar, Anastasia Malliaras, and Brooke Iva Lohman the Witch, Sandman, and Dew Fairy of Hansel & Gretel before a POP Showcase, and has an online conversation with conductor/pianist Brian Holman.  We also had our recorder running at the showcase! Will the kiddos make it out?  Find out November 13,14,20,21 at the family friendly time of...

POPeracast host Jennifer Miller catches up with Chelsea Lehnea and Meagan Martin, Cinderella's evil stepsisters.  She also meets with conductor Kristin Roach to get the origin story of this fairy tale production!  Catch the hijinks ONE NIGHT ONLY Friday August 27, 2021 at the Ford in La cenerentola, Rossini's Bel Canto version of the Cinderella story. pacificoperaproject.com for more details

POPeracast host Jennifer Miller catches up with Andrew Allen Hiers, E. Scott Levin, and Joel Balzun while visiting an *exclusive* salon for POP donors and volunteers.  Sign up to support POP, and you could be there with us next time! Catch these barihunks® ONE NIGHT ONLY Friday August 27, 2021 at the Ford in La cenerentola, Rossini's Bel Canto version of the Cinderella story. pacificoperaproject.c...

POPeracast host Jennifer Miller discusses bracelets, pants, and theatrical shutdowns with Stephanie Doche and Arnold Livingston Geis.  See them ONE NIGHT ONLY Friday August 27, 2021 at the Ford in La cenerentola, Rossini's Bel Canto version of the Cinderella story. pacificoperaproject.com for more details

Host Jennifer Miller discusses the just announced 2021/22 season with Artistic Director Josh Shaw.   Tickets for La Cenerentola are on sale now!  One night only!   August 27, 2021 https://www.theford.com/events/performances/1310/2021-08-27/cinderella

POPeracast host Jennifer Miller visits Don Procopio rehearsal to discuss Bizet, ostriches, and rediscovering music with buffos Ben Lowe, E. Scott Levin, and Armando Contreras, mezzo Jessica Gonzales-Rodriguez, director Josh Shaw, conductor Charlie Kim, and the romantic leads Jon Keenan and Rachel Policar.  A good friend also comes by to bid us adieu. DON PROCOPIO BY GEORGES BIZET June 4, 5, and 6...

New POPeracast host Jennifer Miller sits down with Rachel and William Grundler, Matthew Ian Welch, and Eleen Hsu-Wentlandt, AKA the Don P chorus of ostrich wranglers, to discuss practice, choral numbers, returning to performance, and, of course, ostriches.   DON PROCOPIO BY GEORGES BIZET June 4, 5, and 6 @ 8PM Gates open at 7:00 for picnicking Heritage Square Museum 3800 Homer Street

POPeracast host Andreas Kraemer continues his zoom happy hour with the cast and crew of Trouble in Tahiti. Trouble in Tahiti will be performed at Heritage Square on April 24 and 25, 2021.  Get your tickets NOW!

POPeracast host Andreas Kraemer zooms with the cast and crew of Trouble in Tahiti!  It was such a good talk, this is just half of it... stay tuned! Trouble in Tahiti will be performed at Heritage Square on April 24 and 25, 2021.  Get your tickets NOW!

Host Andreas Kraemer zooms with Maria Dominique Lopez, returning as Musetta in this final hipster production.  We also check in with veterans Keith Colclough and E. Scott Levine. The final presentations of this ICONIC POP production will be December 12 and 13 at 5:30pm.  Get your tickets now at pacificoperaproject.com.

Host Andreas Kraemer zooms with Arnold Livingston Geis and Oriana Falla, Rodolfo and Mimi in this final hipster production.  We also check in with Ben Lowe, returning as Marcello, and get the scoop from slumlord/sugar daddy/churro vendor Luvi Avendano, who does quadruple duty as the music director at Camarillo UMC about how this drive in experiment came to be. The final presentations of this ICONI...

Host Andreas Kraemer zooms with Jessica Sandidge, Tiffany Ho, Meagan Martin, Audrey Yoder, and conductor Kyle Naig to discuss POP's drive-in American premiere of two one-act operas by Gluck. La Corona & Il Parnaso Confuso: November 20 and 21 COVID fan tutte: One last show November 22 Drive in opera at the parking lot of Camarillo United Methodist Church  

Host Andreas Kraemer zooms with Scott Levin, Ariel Pisturino, Jamie Chamberlin, Nathan Granner, and Christina Pezzarossi to discuss POP's new drive-in opera experience. COVID fan tutte: November 14, 15, and 22 in the parking lot of Camarillo United Methodist Church.

Andreas does a deep dive with Eiki Isomura and Josh Shaw in preparation for the 7/15 Watch Party revisiting POP's Japanese-English reimagining of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Tune in 7/15 at 5pm PDT on POP's YouTube channel and Facebook page.

Andreas continues his conversation with Josh and Scott to cover the process of writing a new libretto, collaborations, opera in quarantine, and LIGHTNING ROUND!