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[@ 5 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with soprano Joyce El-Khoury, currently starring under the baton of Riccardo Muti in “Un Ballo in Maschera” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. And that’s just days after being named the Maria Callas Debut Artist of the Year by Dallas Opera… [@ 33 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Both the San Antonio Symphony and Simon Estes are throwing in the towel, Bogdan Roscic is not throwing in the towel, and Barrie Kosky is kinda throwing in the towel… operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] It’s the return of the beloved ‘Spring Training for Your Ears’ segment… Sound like a pro when you talk about the three operas that a real opera fan should know, but that no one has time to listen to… [@ 57 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Key’mon Murrah continues to benefit from the OBS bump, and Brigitte Fassbaender reveals the love of her life… operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] In ‘Crunching the Numbers’… You’ve always known opera is gay. Nicklausse and Hoffman. Octavian and the Marschallin. But it’s Pride Month, and the OBS family are celebrating those operas that are explicitly gay using a score card to determine which is the gayest opera of all… [@ 36 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Turns out French tenor Roberto Alagna is not a fan of iconic Italian auteur Pier Paolo Pasolini, while the first stills from the Leonard Bernstein biopic might get the film canceled before its release… operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

This week… We wrap up a fabulous run on TDO Network with a video-only episode. The OBS Fab Five play an opera-themed version of HORSE on the basketball court… with a surprising victor… Watch the madness: https://www.thedallasopera.tv/opera-box-score/season:1/videos/the-free-throw-finale The team is off for Memorial Day, and then back with an all-new show released on Thursday June 9 at 9 pm CT… Join us! operaboxscore.com facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’… Just as summer baseball starts to heat up, a bullpen full of opera summer festival seasons steps up to the plate. We’ll give you the lineups of each team and tell you which balls to keep your eyes on… [@ 43 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… ARC is going to CAI and Will Liverman is the next Beverly Sills… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 2 min] This week… It’s one of those ‘Best-of…’, podcast-only, shows! The OBS wrecking crew revisit Oliver’s ‘Inside the Huddle’ segment with tenor Charles Castronovo: an interview that was so good, Oliver forgot what they talked about… [@ 29 min] And then… It’s a replay of the very first ‘Sportzando!’ segment, one that was so good, the OBS name-droppers didn’t even have a name for it… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 2 min] This week… The OBS skeleton crew go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with guest co-host and stage director Amy Hutchison to find out how she and her career survived when COVID hit Operaland… [@ 12 min] And then… Amy and George go head to head in an epic, five-round ‘TKO’ with two deep rosters of stage directors battling it out for best production... [@ 42 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Uh oh, the hammer - or is that the sickle? - falls on another Russian soprano at the Met… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 4 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with tenor Ian Koziara to talk about performing “Fidelio” for the deaf, and about having a darker, lower tenor voice that works well in German repertoire… without saying the world “Held_______”... [@ 34 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… The Met’s “Lucia” is a flop, but director Simon Stone has already been rehired… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] This week… In ‘Sportzando!’, Ashlee draws a straight line from opera houses to ESPN, via baseball. Trust the OBS bullpen: it works. [@ 17 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Valery Gergiev is in the news again? More like Valery Grifter-giev. operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 2 min] This week, a personal hero of Oliver’s is inducted into the OBS Hall of Fame. A few hints: he’s one of his generation’s pioneering Rossini singers, he’s from Queens, and Sir Georg Solti once told him that he has Mozart and Verdi in his throat… [@ 35 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… COVID is over… in Atlanta, so you are now free to move to Georgia and vote in their gubernatorial election… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] This week in ‘Chalk Talk’… The season announcements are coming in faster than Anna Netrebko’s separation from Putin, and harder than Will Smith at an awards ceremony. The OBS Crazies talk you through all the season details you need to know… [@ 32 min] And then… “Fire Shut Up In My Bones” is, well, on fire.  The OBS QBs play ‘Monday Evening Quarterback’ and review the recent PBS screening… [@ 47 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Anna, Anna, Anna, what have you done this time? operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 4 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’… It’s still March and the OBS ballers are still mad like Lucia, as they crown the OBS’s 2022 Winningest Composer of the last three hundred years… [@ 41 min] And then… From the ‘Listener Mailbag’, you get the skinny on Jakub Józef Orlinski. Was he nude in Covent Garden’s ‘Theodora’, or was it false advertising…? [@ 45 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… The boycott of the boycotting of boycotted artists has begun! That means you, Ildar Abdrazakov… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 4 min] This week… One of the original ‘Inside the Huddle’ guests returns. And this time the OBS team has proof! It’s Jake Heggie. For real. Jake Heggie. (Oliver, please make sure you are recording…) [@ 26 min] Then, in ‘Chalk Talk’… It’s Week Two of March Madness 2022 when Ashlee and Weston fill out their portions of the bracket for the winningest composer of the past 400 years (minus Mozart, Verdi and Puccini…) [@ 41 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Don’t ever, EVER heckle one of the OBS's ‘Inside the Huddle’ guests. EV-ER… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] This week, in ‘Chalk Talk’... Is it that time of year already? With the Men’s NCAA March Madness tourney set, the OBS b-ballers create their own bracket to pick the winningest opera composer of the last 300 years… [@ 15 min] And then… Opera Philadelphia has just announced its ‘22-’23 season featuring friends of the show Larry Brownlee and David T. Little, and titles including ‘The Backwards Bohème’ and ‘The Other Otello’… [@ 24 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Artists continue to raise their voices in support of Ukraine while Universal gets out of Russia… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] This week in ‘Chalk Talk’… The OBS critics take a look at the Metropolitan Opera’s recently announced ‘22-‘23 season, including 5 David McVicar shows, 4 new productions, 3 ‘Traviata’ casts, 2 Yoncheva role debuts, and a partridge in a pear tree… [@ 29 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… There is definitely one artist who *won’t* be appearing onstage at Lincoln Center this year… SHOW NOTES & LINKS What did Jonas Kaufmann mean? https://operawire.com/tenor-wolfgang-ablinger-sperrhacke-fires-back-at-jonas-kaufmann-over-statement-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/ GET YOUR VOICE HEARD operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

There’s really only one thing on our collective minds right now. To give you some relief from the horrific news coming out of Ukraine, the OBS-ers talk about politics in opera. ‘Cause those two things go together like peanuts and Crackerjacks… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 5 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Daniela Candillari who was just named principal conductor of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. She talks about her very recent conducting debut at the Met on Aucoin’s “Eurydice” and geeks out with Oliver on... a Mozart piano concerto...?! [@ 30 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Cancel culture kills Katherina’s classic co-production, and Central City celebrates a stylish CEO. (Try saying that after three Gin Slings...) SHOW NOTES & LINKS www.danielacandillari.com operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 6 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Mathilda Edge. The rising American lyric-dramatic soprano has already accepted a tenure-track position at Oberlin, just as her singing career is set to launch… [@ 52 min] In ‘Chalk Talk’... Friends of the show abound in the '22-'23 season at Lyric Opera of Chicago, but which one of them will be starring in the Barrie Kosky production of "Fiddler on the Roof"…? SHOW NOTES & LINKS www.mathildaedge.com operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 4 min] Get ready for Super Bowl LVI happening this Sunday in L.A.! Tenor Scott Ramsay goes 'Inside the Huddle' with the OBS Pack-haters to talk about the highs and lows of singing the national anthem on the gridiron… [@ 25 min] Then, in the ‘Listener Mailbag’... When is an opera not an opera…? [@ 32 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Stage director Hans Neuenfels has died. Don’t remember the name? You’ll definitely remember his production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin”... SHOW LINKS Scott Ramsay: www.scottramsay.net operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 4 min] The OBS polyrhythmics induct a birthday boy into the OBS "Hall of Fame"… Here’s a hint: He’s an American ComPOser. He’s an American ComPOser. He’s an American Opera ComPOser. He’e an American ComPOser. [@ 34 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Zubin Mehta unloads some of his shares of Tesla stock so that the Zubin Mehta Hall can have an endowment... operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore