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[@ 4 min] Ashlee kicks off a new segment about the stories behind the musical moments that punctuate sports history… [@ 22 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Never before has a world premiere opera been so on brand for the OBS: “Gods of the Game: a Football Opera”… SHOW NOTES & LINKS John Tesh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_h7Lm7C9Nk SNL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-uSWAJd9GE Italia '90 opening...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqzz7B7V2IE ...and closing credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sffX9Wrbw9w HGO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOM8IjHWxWI WHAT'S YOUR HOT TAKE? operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] The Australian Open kicks off and in the early rounds a lot of Australian qualifiers will be eliminated. The OBS brings back its brutal ‘TKO’ segment and offers you an all-Australian match-up... [@ 39 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Mozart’s birthday is coming up and his gayest opera is getting funding... operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@3 min] In 'Chalk Talk'... Opera America asks "What would you put in an opera time capsule?" We answer, "You mean, in addition to pork scratchings?” [@ 24 min] The star of Opera Sarasota’s upcoming production of "Tosca" - American soprano Ann Toomey - goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Oliver… [@ 54 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Tenor Nicky Spence breaks both of his legs. Was it Putin’s GRU...?! SHOW NOTES https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/concert/53056 https://www.sarasotaopera.org/event/tosca https://www.anntoomey.com CONNECT WITH US operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 4 min] In 'Chalk Talk'... 2021 is in the record books. We take a look back at the most impactful stories of last year… [@ 28 min] In the ‘Listener Mailbag’... Just how DO you explain opera to the layperson...? [@ 37 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Gonzalez-Granados, Lyniv and Yankovskaya all just took steps to becoming opera-house-hold names… SHOW NOTES & LINKS operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2021/12/Features/The_Prototype_Festival_at_10.html gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/lincoln-center-reckoning-its-racist-history/ limelightmagazine.com.au/features/mariusz-kwiecien-back-on-track/ CONNECT WITH US operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

With the OBS crew enjoying a much-earned fortnight off, George shares some of the team's favorite segments from 2021, including going 'Inside the Huddle' with Barbara Hannigan and Will Liverman, and the return of that controversial Euro 2020 of Opera competition... Wherever you are, however you're celebrating the new year... thanks for making opera, and the OBS, part of your listening life! operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

With the OBS crew enjoying a much-earned fortnight off, George shares some of the team's favorite segments from 2021, including going 'Inside the Huddle' with Duke Kim and Key'mon Murrah, and the return of that controversial Opera March Madness competition... Wherever you are, however you're celebrating... thanks for making opera, and the OBS, part of your listening life! operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] This week… Fresh from conducting Opera NexGen’s “Night Trip”, Donald Lee III goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Oliver to talk about the show’s virtual world premiere and about being the inaugural conductor for the Ryan Opera Center… [@ 22 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… It’s a Drill double header. Everything you need to know from Operaland in the past two weeks, plus George and Weston's hot takes on those stories… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

This week, in ‘Chalk Talk’… Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim died at home in Roxbury, CT, on the day after Thanksgiving. He was 91. The OBS company put together an awards show to celebrate Sondheim’s life and work. No ‘Two Minute Drill’, no ‘Inside the Huddle’, just the first - and last - Sondhy Awards… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] This week... The OBS boomers go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Kyle Ketelsen. The heart-throb American bass-baritone is currently in Austria. Oliver asked him what’s going on with the lockdown and why they’re still rehearsing, but his conversation ended up covering much more... [@ 35 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’... Friends of the OBS are achieving major accomplishments like getting Grammy nominations and winning the Marian Anderson Vocal award. If you want to take the next step in your career, better get in touch. (Talkin' to you, Yannick…) operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

If you’re a diehard OBS fan, you’re probably listening to this show on Friday morning… as you nurse your gravy hangover. This week, we skip the divisive opera news, and the A-list singers and quarterbacks behaving badly. Instead, we celebrate feasts and family the OBS way, serving up a buffet of works where food and music go together like peas and carrots... operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] This week… Chicago is on the clock. It’s the return of the ‘Fantasy Fachball’ segment, as the OBS crew do a real-time, opera singer mock draft to cast the perfect quartet for “Aida”... [Don’t forget to put together your own ‘Fantasy Fachball’ team for “Aida” and, of course, give it a dreadful pun-ny name. Let us know what you’re thinking at operaboxscore@gmail.com, and get an OBS beer coaster and an OBS lapel pin…] [@ 30 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Tommasini is finally hanging up his cleats and the Met is turning the page on the Lepage ring cycle… Next week… We celebrate feasts in opera… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 8 min] This week… The OBS cheeseheads go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with Kathryn Henry, the soprano who went from standby to stardom in the world premiere of “The Lord of Cries” at the Santa Fe Opera... [@ 48 min] Then… Well, the OBS team finally saw it: the Barrie Kosky production of "TheMagic Flute”. And that also means the return of Monday Evening Quarterback… [@ 57 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Elina Garanča announces that she has grown neither horns nor wings, and we get to the bottom of why exactly opera singers don’t deafen each other onstage… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 3 min] This week… A heroic coloratura soprano is inducted posthumously into the OBS Hall of Fame. (Sorry, Gruberova fans. We thought we had so much time left with this legendary artist…) [@ 36 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… While the Drill took a break for the Hallowe’en Spooktacular, both Operalia and a Trade-News-apalooza happened… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

This week... It's our annual Halloween Spooktacular… No 'Two Minute Drill', no hot takes: just some old-fashioned, vengeful hunchbacks, some riddling ice princesses, and some real phantoms of the opera... Next week... We induct (posthumously, with tears in our eyes) a brilliant soprano into the OBS Hall of Fame... operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 4 min] Fall is for falling in love, and Oliver just barely contains himself when he goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with dreamy tenor Charles Castronovo… [@ 33 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… First, a secret relationship with your girlfriend’s sister; then, the three of you plot to kill their mother. It’s not a verismo opera plot, it’s real life, and the villain is a countertenor... Plus… We’re back with an all-new show next week with our annual Hallowe’en Spooktacular. Join us… if you dare! operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 4 min] This week… We go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with stage director Keturah Stickann. She brought ‘The Barber of Seville’ to San Diego Opera’s drive-in COVID season; she’s also bringing opera librettists into the conversation with her podcast “Words First”… [@ 26 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… If you’re dumb enough to take your phone out and film Jonas Kaufmann while he’s singing, prepare to be shamed in a German accent… We’re back with an all-new show next week when we go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with tenor Charles Castronovo… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 6 min] The OBS yokels induct another seminal composer into the OBS Hall of Fame. Hint? Think Susannah. With an H... [@ 34 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Who can afford to study opera anyway? According to Hollywood, it’s wealthy white women. And they’re not wrong. The OBS back with an all-new show next week, going ‘Inside the Huddle’ with stage director Keturah Stickann, who's also host of the podcast "Words First: Talking Text in Opera"… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 4 min] The OBS placekickers go ‘Inside the Huddle’ with director Rose Freeman and soprano Angela Born, whose collective work is in a double bill production at Third Eye Theatre Ensemble in Chicago... [@ 29 min] In Chalk Talk… While this the show was taped, Terence Blanchard’s opera “Fire Shut Up In My Bones” opened the season at the Metropolitan Opera. The OBS team talk about the plethora of ways this is a truly monumental occasion... [@ 42 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… There's red cards and yellow cards; this time there might have to be a green flag… operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 4 min] Pianist and vocal coach Irina Meachem, and her baritone husband Lucas, go ‘Inside the Huddle’ to preview their upcoming album “Shall We Gather” which comes out this month... [@ 29 min] Plus, in the ‘Two Minute Drill’… Can’t we just keep the drama on the stage and out of the wings… and out of the fly tower...? operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore

[@ 25 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with star soprano Erin Morley, who seems like a circus performer with all the high-flying, high-pressure roles she sings. Hear her compare singing Lucia to giving birth, as we launch Season Seven of the OBS… [@ 52 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill’… We repeat the mantra yet again: “NO KIDS AT THE OPERA!”  Nope, not even if they’re onstage... operaboxscore.com dallasopera.org/tdo_network_show/opera-box-score facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore