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Recent Episodes

Episode 136. Puccini en Français

Posted March 18, 2022 • 01:59:48

This week’s episode is a counterpart to my ongoing exploration of the practice of performing opera in translation which includes the “Verdi auf...

Episode 135. A Woman’s Winterreise

Posted March 11, 2022 • 01:52:05

Today in honor of Women’s History Month and the people of Ukraine, I present a compendium of eight different Liedersängerinnen singing Franz Schubert’s...

Episode 134. Legacy (Black History Month 2022 Postlude)

Posted March 4, 2022 • 01:49:50

This is the second part of my final episode of Black History Month 2022, continuing the exploration of the legacies of more than two dozen mostly underrecorded...

Episode 133. Never Forget (Black History Month 2022)

Posted February 25, 2022 • 01:29:33

I bid a lingering farewell to Black History Month 2022 with the first of a two-part episode featuring singers, each of whom left a relatively small...

Episode 132. Brock Peters (Black History Month 2022)

Posted February 22, 2022 • 01:37:35

How often it happens that, even when an artist produces an august and varied body of work, that they are remembered only for a tiny fragment of their...