Unsuitable for Children! (S9 | E386)

ft. John Brancy and Lisette Oropesa

This week, the team goes “Inside the Huddle” with John Brancy. The counterbaritone joins us from London where he is starring in George Benjamin’s Picture a Day Like This. Find out how Benjamin customized a role to Brancy’s extraordinary abilities and why he refuses to be limited to one fach.

Then Lisette Oropesa, who makes her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut next month in The Daughter of the Regiment, takes a “Free Throw” on the other Donizetti role that brought her to career to the international forefront.

And in the “Two Minute Drill,” Deborah S. Proctor, general manager of a North Carolina radio station, wants to protect listeners from certain damnation, and Christian Thielemann is named music director of Berlin State Opera.

Read Celeste Headlee’s open letter to Deborah S. Proctor here.

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Opera Box Score · Unsuitable for Children! ft. John Brancy and Lisette Oropesa

Watch Lisette Oropesa perform Lucia’s mad scene from Teatro Real, Madrid.

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