Thrilled to Announce

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.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! A few weeks ago we asked you guys to tell us all about your paranormal operatic experiences, and this episode is full of those stories!!! Haunted homestays, ghost cats who hate singing, vengeful on-stage spirits, prophetic pre-audition dreams, and MORE!!  We’re all haunted by specters of singers past, possessed by them every time we steal ornaments from old recordings… this art form is a way of communicating w spirit; one hand holding onto the memory of all the beautiful shit we’ve made in the past, the other swimming through the murky waters of the present towards an uncharted, glimmering future...

Sylvia's Don Giovanni review!! We are SO excited to share our convo with THEE Sylvia Korman!! They are an opera critic for Parterre Box, owner of @peoplemadatopera on twitter, and a phd student genius!! We followed Sylvia to the met’s production of don Giovanni like two little puppy dogs to get an inside look at the critic’s PROCESS: what are they thinking about when they sit down to watch a production they plan on reviewing? Do they take notes? Should a reviewer lean into The Dunk, or resist it with all their might? Are we all addicted to the dunk, or can we stomach sincerity and nuance? Should we ask that woman who had an org*sm at Tchaik V to come on the pod??? We discuss all of this and more on this, our most Sylvia-filled episode yet!