Ep. 116 Verdi's La Forza del Destino & Lisa Reagan's What We Need Is Here
Where passion joins with music and poetry we find opera. In this sweet spot, we also find What We Need Is Here, the most recent project by accomplished musician and singer, Lisa Reagan. Lisa joins us ...
26 Feb 20242h 5min
Ep. 115 Berg's Lulu & Erica Miner's Prelude to Murder
Two things never go out of fashion: opera and mystery. In this episode, mystery writer and former opera violinist Erica Miner talks with us about her opera mystery series and Lulu, Berg’s high-body-c...
22 Jan 20241h 58min
Ep. 114 Amahl and the Night Visitors
In Amahl and the Night Visitors, a young boy and his mother unexpectedly play host to the Magi on their way to meet the infant Jesus. Originally written for television, this opera uniquely bridges th...
31 Dec 20231h 58min
Ep. 113 L’Italiana in Algeri by Rossini
By turns funny, serious, and seriously funny, L’Italiana in Algeri is a fascinating assembly of romantic tropes: a spurned wife, a shipwrecked lover, a pirate king, and a daring escape. At the same t...
19 Nov 20231h 58min
Ep. 112 The Egyptian Helen by Richard Strauss
“The face that launched a thousand ships.” Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, has a problem. Her husband plans to kill her, but she just wants him to fall in love with her again. ...
2 Okt 20232h 9min
Ep. 111 Tosca by Giacomo Puccini
One of the top ten most-performed operas in the world, Puccini’s Tosca is considered by some the greatest of operas. A painter provides refuge for an escaped political prisoner, which begins a chain ...
26 Aug 20231h 58min
Ep. 110 Das Liebesverbot by Wagner
Richard Wagner’s style is one of the most distinctive and recognizable in all of opera. But Wagner wasn’t always the Wagner we’ve come to know. The earliest of Wagner’s operas to be performed in his ...
1 Aug 20232h 4min
Ep. 109 Die Frau Ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss
At once a sweeping story about humanity and a deeply personal look at a married couple with unfulfilled aspirations, Die Frau Ohne Schatten is often considered the magnum opus of the famed partnership...
26 Juni 20231h 58min
