In the Season 2 Finale, Elise and Marcelle reflect on the twists and turns of creating a podcast during a global pandemic. They share how working on this season has changed their thoughts on the industry, helped them to more clearly find their voices, and reaffirmed their commitment to advocating for all singers. Finally, they…
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🏳️🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈 On today’s show we sit down with the fabulous baritone Matthew Maisano to talk about his parallel career as the enchanting drag queen known as Balena Canto. During quarantine, Matthew and Balena have been incredibly active, exploring different ways to produce online concerts, contests, and drag shows. He shares with us…
Read MoreBlack Lives Matter. For too long, the opera industry has participated in violence towards BIPOC. Blackface, brownface, and yellowface are common occurrences even at the highest levels of our art form. Singers of color are too often only used as performative tokenism, their pain is used for profit, and their voices are relegated to the…
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