Thrilled to Announce

On today's episode, we are THRILLED and HONORED to chat with the star 1-of-1 soprano Ariadne Greif! She has premiered over 100 new works all around the world with the coolest of the cool in classical music. We pick her brain about her early internet memories, social media posting theory, the gameification of auditioning, and feeling envy. AND all of her cool performing. AND all of her cool clothes. AND the horrors of posting your singing online.

Come one, come all, join Ariadne Greif's Troubadour Troupe!!

Welcome to Classical Music Social Media Anthropology 101. Please take out your syllabus and have a seat.
We take a magnifying glass, and microscope, a thoughtful gaze and point it to the strange, silly, and occasionally harrowing landscape of opera singer Instagram.
Do we create our internet content, or does our internet content create us? What will we find in our search for truth in the quagmire of the algorithm? Does the internet even matter? Does the internet even care? Much like opera, the internet is living, the internet is dying over and over and over forever.

We dissect the idea of a fixed, unchanging past and futures colored by the deaths we experience through Handel arias, Lynch's death, Yuval Sharon's 'A New Philosophy of Opera', Nosferatu 2024, the anniversary of Perri's father's death, 'Die Wise' by Stephen Jenkinson, and the opera singer who sang at the inauguration.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! In this episode we discuss:

- Being maximalists

- Braiding our hair

- This Peter Gelb op-ed

- This Alex Ross article

- This it girl article

- The operatic it girl (does she exist)

- Opera sounds alien and weird, let's lean in

- SO MUCH MORE!

Is opera cringe? Are you cringe? Let's find out together :) Charlotte & Perri discuss the cringe inherent in performance through the theories of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jia Tolentino, and their own little brains! They share stories, compare notes, and commune with cringe. The only way out is through - let's have a seance with uncomfortable emotions.