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EPISODE CONTENT
January 2020
1.10 Kanye West’s ‘Mary’
9.55 Michael Volpe retires from Opera Holland Park
10.21 Critics’ Question Time at Opera Holland Park
17.53 Can Opera Survive Outside London?
27.25 ENO recruit 5 BAME string players
Does Opera Have a Racism Problem?
Blacking up at Vienna Staatsoper
33.03 Interview with Stuart Stratford (Music Director, Stuart Stratford)
1.09.04 ‘Britain is Great’ at Royal Opera House
1.17.30 World’s First Hyperreality Opera
1.19.05 Casa Verdi
1.21.20 Would we like more Beethoven Operas?
1.24.41 Duchess of Sussex: The Opera (courtesy of Neil Fisher)
1.27.20 Opera on Radio, Film and Online
1.28.17 Hidden Gem – ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ (Giannini)
1.30.37 Opera Quiz
Recorded at Chapel FM on 17 January 2020
Produced by Northern Opera Group
Host – David Ward
Guests – Ben Crick, Helen Harrison
Operacast brings you the latest news, reviews, interviews and general chat from the world of opera.
Available every month on this website and through all major podcast channels - just search "Operacast" to find us.
Also available every month is a Spotify playlist to accompany the episode.
Operacast is brought to you by Northern Opera Group and Chapel FM.
January 2020
David Ward, Ben Crick and Helen Harrison chat
- Opera Survival
- Critics' Question Time
- Casting Piers Morgan
and more!
Including an exclusive interview with Scottish Opera's Stuart Stratford
December 2019
IT'S CHRISTMAS!
Which means December's edition is a festive pod, including
- a Christmassy hidden gem
- top gifts for opera lovers
- highlights of 2019
and more!
Including an exclusive interview with Glyndebourne's Sarah Hopwood
Comments on the podcast, suggestions for future episodes, sponsorship queries ... Feel free to contact podcast host, David Ward, here.
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Northern Opera Group perform rare and wonderful operas in imaginative ways. We produce a range of professional and community operas, and run the annual Left Bank Opera Festival in Leeds, United Kingdom.
Previous productions include Viardot's 'Cendrillon', Storace's 'The Pirates', and Yiu's 'The Original Chinese Conjuror'.
To find out more about our work, please visit our website.