2024, Kick Rocks: The Year in Review!
2024, Kick Rocks: The Year in Review! Hear favorite show topics, best and worst news items, favorite live performances and recordings.
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A One-Horse Open Slayyyyy!
This week we go Inside the Carol with Jessye’s Carol, Jingle Bells?, O helga natt, and Last Christmas. One-Horses Open Slayyyyy!
La Sopranista del West! ft. Key’mon Murrah
Go Inside the Huddle with Key’mon Murrah, winner of the 2024 Marian Anderson Vocal Award. La Sopranista del West!
Die Frau Ohne Schatten
Die Frau Ohne Schatten
Callas 101 ft. Sophia Lambton
Go Inside the Huddle with Sophia Lambton, author of the new biography The Callas Imprint.
Pavarotti & Friendsgiving
Pavoratti & Friendsgiving
Advertorials and Evangelists! ft. Gwilym Bowen and Frederica von Stade
Frederica von Stade takes a Free Throw. And Inside the Huddle with Gwilym Bowen, an artist in the lineage of fellow British tenors who sing Monteverdi and Britten.
A Voice on Fire
Agnes Baltsa launched her career as a top-tier technician well-suited to Mozart and bel canto. A Voice on Fire Agnes Baltsa | Opera Box Score
Denyce Graves in a Pantsuit! ft. Kenneth Kellogg
Bass Kenneth Kellogg takes a Free Throw on the Father in Blue, a role he has sung in almost every production of Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s opera.
Opera Creeps!
In our annual Halloween Spooktacular, we warn you about characters to avoid: Olin Blitch, Ortrud, The Protector, and Jack Torrance, a.k.a. opera’s biggest creeps! Opera Creeps!