POPeracast

Host Andreas Kraemer zooms with Josh Shaw and E. Scott Levin to preview the 5/13/2020 watch party of Super Magic Flute and explore the origin story of POP's innovative re-imagining.

Host Andreas Kraemer discusses the how POP is dealing with the COVID-19 crisis with Josh Shaw and sits down with Captain James T. Belmonte himself, tenor Brian Cheney.

Host Andreas Kraemer talks with L'enfant herself Kimberly Sogioka about being the glue that holds the double bill together.  Tenor Jonathan Matthews discusses the acting side of being an opera singer.  Newcomers Audrey Yoder, Sarabeth Belón, and conductor Joshua Horsch discuss creating an aural atmosphere with music. Get your tickets to the show at pacificoperaproject.com! Saturday February 1 at 7...

Host Andreas Kraemer has very serious conversations about art, opera, creativity, Dante's inferno, bad boys, scheming relatives, and forging wills with POP favorites Robert Norman, E. Scott Levin, Tiffany Ho, William Grundler, Joel Balzun, and newcomer Thomas Sitzler. Get your tickets to the show at pacificoperaproject.com! Saturday January 25 at 3:00 PM (Celebration Brunch at 1:00PM)  Saturday Fe...

Host Andreas Kraemer previews the 10th POP season at a Gianni Schicchi/L'enfant et les Sortilèges rehearsal with Artistic Director Josh Shaw.   Get your tickets to the show at pacificoperaproject.com! Saturday January 25 at 3:00 PM (Celebration Brunch at 1:00PM)  Saturday February 1 at 7:00 PM  Sunday February 2 at 3:00 PM

Andreas gets to know a whole new class of hipsters!  We are so excited we got to talk to Janet Todd for a moment between scenes at a dress rehearsal.  Luvi Avendano and Robert Norman explain how a character tenor and a bass baritone can share a triple-role.  Newcomer Adam Cioffari discusses joining POP for the first time.  Finally POP stalwart E. Scott Levin teases Gianni Schicchi next month! Two...

Andreas gets to know a whole new class of hipsters!  Orson Van Gay and Parisa Zaeri discuss what it really means to be a hipster, Maria Dominique Lopez fiercely fills some (figuratively) big shoes, Kenneth Stavert gets goofy, and Josh Shaw discusses cat herding. Three shows remaining in 2019!  12/11, 12/13, and live-streamed on 12/14!  All shows 8pm at the historic Highland Park Ebell Club. https:...

Just in time for closing weekend! E Scott Levin explains his workout (napping) regimen, Phil Meyer's voice is a baboon, Matthew Ian Welch keeps the Mikado secret safe, and Maggie Green drops absolute stunners in lightning round. The 2019 run of the Mikado is sold out, but you can catch our recorded livestream at  https://youtu.be/tE1FxIjubM0 Subscribe to POPeracast and POP on YouTube to get notifi...

Little maids Janet Todd, Tiffany Ho, and Abbe Drake and conductor Parisa Zaeri sit down with host Andreas Kraemer to discuss satire, shifting socio-political norms, intense pressure, and operetta. Get your Mikado tickets now!  They are going fast! August 16, 17(two shows!), 22, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31 at the Highland Park Ebell Club

Andreas sits down with Charlie Kim and Josh Shaw to discuss The Mikado, Gilbert & Sullivan, cultural representation in opera, and lots more. Get your Mikado tickets now!  They are going fast! August 16, 17(two shows!), 22, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31 at the Highland Park Ebell Club

Host Andreas Kraemer visits Madama Butterfly rehearsal!  We talk with Keiko Clark, Kimberly Sogioka, Eiji Miura, Chelsea Obermeier, and Eiki Isomura about the show, and it gets intense.

Host Andreas Kraemer and POP Artistic Director Josh Shaw discuss POP's groundbreaking new concept of Puccini's Madama Butterfly with tenor Peter Lake (Pinkerton) and baritone Kenneth Stavert (Sharpless). See this fantastic production at the Aratani Theater in Little Tokyo on April 6, 13, and 14.  Get your tickets now!

Host Andreas Kraemer sits down with E. Scott Levin, Andrew Potter, Ariel Pisturino, and Megan Potter to discuss video games, origin stories, and the vagaries of costume design. VERY FEW tickets to Magic Flute available March 8,9,10 at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood. Costume Contest and Pre-show "8bit covers" band The Extra Lives on Friday March 8! www.pacificoperaproject.com 

Our visit to the Magic Flute rehearsal was too much awesome for a single episode, so here is the second part!  POP's Queen of the Night Michelle Drever discusses elegant evil.  Conductor Ed Benyas talks inventive stagings.  We get a visit from three spirits (Emily Rosenberg, Amanda Benjamin, and Christine Marie Li), and Tara Wheeker joins us to discuss being the head minion. Tickets to Magic Flute...

Host Andreas Kraemer visits a Magic Flute rehearsal to talk with Tamino Linkman (Arnold Livingston Geis), Zelda Pamina (Alexandra Schoeny), Wariostatos (Robert Norman), and enjoy the comedy stylings of Joshua Alarcon and Jonathan Matthews. Tickets to Magic Flute available March 2,3,8,9,10 at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood. Costume Contest and Pre-show "8bit covers" band The Extra Lives o...

Andreas and Artistic Director Josh Shaw discuss the exciting and ambitious 2019 POP season.   The Magic Flute - March 2,3,8,9,10 at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood Madama Butterfly, a new English/Japanese translation - April 6,13,14 at the Aratani Theater in Little Tokyo The Mikado - August 16, 17 (matinee), 17, 22, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31 at the Highland Park Ebell Club La bohème (AKA The Hip...

Host Andreas Kraemer visits the set to speak with lovebirds Dane Suarez and Kerriann Otaño, influencer Elle Valera, the ever stoic Vincent Grana, true American hero E. Scott Levin, and music director Parisa Zaeri Reaves.   Don't miss the livestream 12/21 at 8pm!  Links on the POP homepage and Facebook page.  Subscribe to the newly created POP Youtube Channel!

Andreas sits down with Maya Rothfuss, Aubrey Trujillo-Scarr, JJ Lopez, and Ben Lowe to discuss La boheme, Hipsters, love, opera, cats, and button-pushing.

Host Andreas Kraemer visits a La traviata rehearsal!  We speak with Eric McKeever, Emily Rosenberg, Laura Zahn, conductor Jesse Leong, and POP comedic duo Balzun and Grundler.  Stay tuned to the very end for a very special guest.... 

Maggie Green, Evie Banuelos, and Carson Gilmore talk about what happens behind the scenes at POP.  Get your tickets to La traviata at Thorne Hall of Occidental College October 27 and 28!

Andreas sits down with Amanda and Orson to discuss life, love, and, of course, opera.

Andreas couldn't make this recording, but Josh Shaw steps in to interview Maria Dominique Lopez, Mercedes in Carmen at the Ford, and long time POP choreographer Amy Lawrence.  They talk about choreography for opera singers, the mezzo voice, Carmen's cultural significance, and the rehearsal process. Carmen at the Ford is SOLD OUT, so don't wait to get your tickets to La Traviata on October 27 and 2...

Host Andreas Kraemer visits a rehearsal of Carmen at the Ebell Club to talk to Nora Graham-Smith, Dane Suarez, Babatunde Akinboboye, William Grundler, and Joel Balzun about mezzo-sopranos, smuggling, orientalism, and relationships with coworkers.

Andreas sits down with Katherine Powers, the original Musetta from Hipster Boheme and Frasquita in Carmen,  to discuss POP history, Carmen in the context of #metoo, tenors, and music education. Carmen at the Ford is SOLD OUT!  Get your tickets for La traviata at Occidental and La boheme in Highland Park NOW!  

Andreas sits down with Josh Shaw, Aubrey Scarr, and Michael Powers to discuss fighting, Spanish music, female empowerment, complex relationships, all things Carmen!  Very few seats left for Carmen, but every seat at the Ford is a good seat!  Buy your tickets for the September 1 show now!