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That singer can act!...Amazon steps up to the plate...Life of Brian comes to the concert hall...Kiri wins/loses her lawsuit...PLEASE no more Deborah Voigt articles...a Scotsman on a horse...the Duke Boys are banned from Cinci...Carol Burnett makes me mad...and Guess Who Died??
Our panel this week features Roberta Rice, Matt Boresi, Benjie de la Fuente and Kevin Kees.
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I’ve gotten a lot of emails from people who would like to be on the show sometime. One way to solve this would be to do a live show. A service called TalkShoe makes this possible. You would download the software, register and then be able to call-in to the show and listen. More importantly I would be able to take your calls like on a radio show.
There’s no point in scheduling it if nobody calls in so I though I would run it by people here. If I get enough interest I’ll set one up.
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This week we look at summer Young Artist programs. The highs and the lows.
Our guests are Ethan Watermeier, Audrey Babcock and Leah Wool.
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I hope our recent episode isn't responsible for this one. NYCO has announced the postponement of next year's production of Ragtime. We discussed this in Episode 15 - The Godfather...Part NEVER! I think we looked it at it in a fair and balanced way (if I may borrow from O'Reilly) . Some were for, some were against and some were indifferent (which would probably be the norm among most people).
While a canceled production is never a good thing, somewhere down deep a part of me is dreaming that our discussion was somehow was to blame. That we've become so vital and important in the business that what we say cannot help but shake opera to its very foundation.
Who the hell am I kidding?
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This week we look at the new production of The Fly due out next season at LA Opera with Howard Shore, David Cronenberg and Domingo. We also discuss the new appointment of Gerard Mortier at NYCO and the new push for new productions and more movie theater presentations by The Met. Does sex sell in opera? Should there be more or less (or even some)? All rounded out by Guess Who Died?
The show features Kevin Kees, Roberta Rice, David Gordon and new member, Anne Choe.
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Friends, it appears that I will be taking part in the Opera America 2007 conference in Miami at the end of April. I've been asked to take part in a panel called "Broadcasts and Podcasts and Webcasts, Oh My!" The title is a bit on the cheese side, but I am very excited and grateful to have been asked.
I'll have more specific info and some other musings regarding what I may do in the near future. Until then, click on Professor Wagstaff to find out more information on the conference (shameless cross-promotion). And check out the clips below! The first is from Duck Soup...the second A Night at the Opera (possibly more appropriate). Harpo Marx learned on his grandmother's harp. If you look at the end of the clip, I like to think of the old woman looking on in rapt attention and delight to be his grandmother looking down on him from whatever after-life she was in and feeling an unbelievable sense of pride and love...
