Podcast Episodes

Operaish Broadway

Season 1 Episode 52

Today’s episode (in celebration of Countermelody’s first birthday!) picks up where the last one left off: more musicals, more opera (and operaish) si…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Legitimate Broadway

Season 1 Episode 51

Today’s topic is operetta and opera on Broadway. From the early days of the Great White Way, a large amount of the musical theatre repertoire was act…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Episode 50. Rogue Tenors (Crossover Classics VI)

Our crossover series continues, this time with a full episode dedicated to more than a century of great tenors singing crossover material, beginning …

5 years, 10 months ago

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Eileen Farrell: Queen of Crossover (Crossover Classics V)

Season 1 Episode 49

The American dramatic soprano Eileen Farrell (1920–2002) was one of the finest and most versatile singers the United States has ever produced. Her si…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Episode 48. Cesare Siepi (Crossover Classics IV)

Last month marked the tenth anniversary of the death of the great Italian basso Cesare Siepi, one of the most important basses of the twentieth centu…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Sylvia Sass (Crossover Classics III)

Season 1 Episode 47

The Hungarian soprano Sylvia Sass was a comet in the operatic firmament in the mid-1970s through the 1980s, most celebrated for singing the heaviest …

5 years, 11 months ago

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Julia Migenes (Crossover Classics II)

Season 1 Episode 46

Today’s featured artist, the cosmopolitan yet earthy Julia Migenes, is certainly one of the most compelling and successful of all “crossover artists.…

5 years, 11 months ago

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Muriel Smith (Crossover Classics I)

Season 1 Episode 45

For the first of my Black History Month episodes back in February, I did a program featuring the extraordinary artist Muriel Smith, who in 1943, whil…

5 years, 11 months ago

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Gl’amour, Part Deux: The Invaders

Season 1 Episode 44

Aux armes, citoyens! We have received advance warning that an army of foreigners masking as French speakers are storming the artistic gates, so to sp…

5 years, 11 months ago

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Gl’amour I (Bastille Day 2020)

Season 1 Episode 43

Another nation, la belle France, has a birthday right around the corner, and today I hoist the Tricolore to celebrate La Fête Nationale. I had planne…

5 years, 11 months ago

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