Opera Box Score

[@ 4 min] Oliver goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with the pioneering Cuban-American composer and conductor Odaline de la Martinez. Find out how Maestra Martinez has been toiling over decades to increase the diversity of those composers whose work gets performed and recorded. Plus, Martinez reveals how Dame Ethel Smyth got into “good trouble” and conducted a chorus from prison… [@ 42 min] The OBS officiating crew dips into the listener mailbag for a double header of ‘Post Game Notes’ on Richard Strauss and Beverly Sills, and gives some questionable advice… [@ 1 h 07 min] In the ‘Two Minute Drill,’ Lisette Oropesa gets an encore and Andrea Bocelli has a bad take on coronavirus lockdowns… www.operaboxscore.com www.facebook.com/obschi1 @operaboxscore IG operaboxscore