Episode 19: 🎉 Season 2 Finale 🎉
In the Season 2 Finale, Elise and Marcelle reflect on the twists and turns of creating a podcast during a global pandemic. They share...
Episode 18: Creating a Kick*ss Personal Brand with Tara Priolo
Branding. We’re all supposed to do it, especially with our work being pushed mostly into the digital realm. 💻 Many of us don’t know...
Episode 17: We Are Stronger Together with the AGMA Soloist Coalition 🤝💪
“Opera singers need a better (or a new) union.” It’s a phrase that we know we’ve heard — or let’s be real, said ourselves–...
Episode 16: What if Audition Season is a Sh*tty Infinity Scarf?
Elise and Marcelle are back on their own this week, and the TEA IS HOT. ☕️ As an industry, we’re facing a delayed audition...
Opera Diaries, Part 1: Chantal Freeman on Finding Validation
Today we begin a new mini-series on the podcast, Opera Diaries, in which we will share first-person accounts from individual artists about their journeys,...
Episode 15: Content Creation in the Time of COVID with Matthew Maisano (aka the FAB drag queen✨Balena Canto✨)
🏳️🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈 On today’s show we sit down with the fabulous baritone Matthew Maisano to talk about his parallel career as the...
Episode 14: Demystifying Management with Stratagem Artists 🧐
“Do you have a manager yet?” In opera, we’re often led to believe that management is the Holy Grail, the sign that you’ve “made...
Episode 13: Personal Growth & Mental Wellness with Dr. Glenn Doyle 🩺
As quarantine drags on, we’re faced with a lot of questions as artists and as people: What do I do now that my work...
Episode 12: Conductor Anthony Barrese of Opera Southwest
On today’s show we talk to conductor Anthony Barrese, who is the artistic director at Opera Southwest and the music director at OperaDelaware. From...
Episode 11: Zach Finkelstein on the #operalife during and after COVID
Season two begins NOW and we’re hot off the presses in our first episode, talking to Zach Finkelstein, a tenor, a research analyst, and...
BONUS EPISODE: COVID 😷 Part 2
10 days later…. And all sense of time has evaporated. 🤔 We check back in with each other after Philadelphia’s “stay-at-home” protocol goes into...
BONUS EPISODE: COVID 😷 Part 1
We’re back and podcasting in the time of COVID! First up on this bonus episode, we share some updates for the podcast! Most importantly,...
Episode 10: 💃🏼 Season One Finale 💃🏻
To celebrate the completion of our first season, we invited some opera singer friends to join us for drinks and conversation around some of...
Episode 9: Jessica Fishenfeld Keeps Opera ‘Alive & Kicking’ 🏋🏼♀️💪
On today’s show we interview Jessica Fishenfeld, a soprano who isn’t afraid to make things happen! In addition to building her career in opera,...
Episode 8: Hacking the Side Hustle🏃🏼♀️🏃🏻♀️🏃🏾♀️
Day Job. Parallel Career. Side Hustle. As creatives, we’ve all heard about them and probably have had one (or many). However, we can often...
Episode 7: Getting After Those #DivaGoals 🙌🏻
Sometimes our dreams can seem impossible to achieve. Sometimes we’re working hard to achieve them and we’re still feeling like we’re just running in...
BONUS EPISODE- 6.5: Revising the YAP Process
Not ones to feel defeated by rejection, Marcelle and Elise have a candid conversation about the problems with the current YAP application process and...
Episode 6: Rethinking Rejection
Audition season can be an exciting time of year, but it also comes with a lot of rejection. And let’s face it, while rejection...
Episode 5: Kristen Seikaly of Operaversity
Kristen Seikaly is a blogger, content writer, and creative writer. She also happens to be an ex-opera singer. She’s got a MM from Westminster...
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