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Inside Opera
Cincinnati Opera
31 episodes
2 months ago
American opera director Robin Guarino chats with Evans about her work both on and off the stage. From her time being the first female stagehand at the Metropolitan Opera to her current position as the J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair in Opera at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, she has made it her mission to combine blend art with activism. Hear about her experience directing both modern masterpieces and older classics as well as her run-ins with the biggest opera names of the 20th century!
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American opera director Robin Guarino chats with Evans about her work both on and off the stage. From her time being the first female stagehand at the Metropolitan Opera to her current position as the J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair in Opera at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, she has made it her mission to combine blend art with activism. Hear about her experience directing both modern masterpieces and older classics as well as her run-ins with the biggest opera names of the 20th century!
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Performing Arts
Arts,
Music
Episodes (20/31)
Inside Opera
Robin Guarino: Directing as Activism
American opera director Robin Guarino chats with Evans about her work both on and off the stage. From her time being the first female stagehand at the Metropolitan Opera to her current position as the J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair in Opera at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, she has made it her mission to combine blend art with activism. Hear about her experience directing both modern masterpieces and older classics as well as her run-ins with the biggest opera names of the 20th century!
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5 years ago
1 hour 1 minute 37 seconds

Inside Opera
Gregory Spears: Modern Masterpieces
American composer Gregory Spears chats with Evans about his rise into the opera world and two of his most notable works: Fellow Travelers, which Cincinnati Opera premiered in 2015, and Castor and Patience, which Cincinnati Opera will premiere during its 2021 Summer Festival. Listen in to hear about Spears’s musical origins, inspirations, and how he goes about writing for opera.
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5 years ago
1 hour 7 minutes 39 seconds

Inside Opera
Isabel Leonard: Constructing a Character
Grammy Award-winning opera singer Isabel Leonard chats with Evans about how to approach each role with compassion, what raising a son looks like as a professional performer, and her perspectives on operatic characters both old and new. Hear about why she prefers to be called a “singer” rather than a “soprano” or “mezzo-soprano”—to the point that she can’t wait to see an opera house list her as a tenor in a program!
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5 years ago
1 hour 11 minutes 6 seconds

Inside Opera
Marie-France Lefebvre: Working with the Coach
Evans sits down with vocal coach, collaborative pianist, conductor, and long-time friend Marie-France Lefebvre to talk about her upbringing in rural Quebec and how she works hands-on with opera stars and students alike as a professor at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). Plus, hear what it’s like to be one of the only people who can talk during a live opera performance: the prompter!
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5 years ago
1 hour 4 minutes 9 seconds

Inside Opera
Talise Trevigne: Baseball Mom and Opera Star
Take a peek into the life of a true supermom, hear about her work with composer Jake Heggie, and listen to her perspectives on being an artist during the COVID-19 shutdown.
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5 years ago
1 hour 6 minutes 52 seconds

Inside Opera
David Effron: Cincinnati's Own Conducting Legend
Learn what it was like to see opera at the Cincinnati Zoo, about the Cincinnati classical music scene of the mid-1900s, and why the Pulitzer-Prize winning musical Hamilton has caught this opera conductor’s attention!
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5 years ago
1 hour 11 minutes 36 seconds

Inside Opera
Vita Tzykun: On Design
Learn why Vita wants to break the barrier between scenic and costume design, what it’s like to work with Lady Gaga, and how her work—along with many artists’ work—has evolved in a time of social distancing.
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5 years ago
1 hour 2 minutes 29 seconds

Inside Opera
Daniela Candillari: Across the Musical Globe
Candillari was raised under the inspiration of her opera-singing grandmother and dove headfirst into her classical piano studies in modern-day Serbia. Little did she know that she would soon study jazz in the far-off town of Bloomington, Indiana or become a renown contemporary opera conductor in New York City. Didn’t think she could get any more interesting? Wait until you hear how many languages she speaks!
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5 years ago
57 minutes 33 seconds

Inside Opera
David Charles Abell: Storytelling
They discuss David’s unusual path into the world of conducting, his conducting debut, and how his career has been helped by avoiding some advice he was once given. His best career advice is to “think of all music as storytelling.”
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6 years ago
1 hour 7 minutes 2 seconds

Inside Opera
Amor de la Vida: An Interview with Ramon Tebar
Evans Mirageas and Conductor Ramon Tebar discuss Ramon’s career, how he came to the United States, and his philosophies on how to be a musician and love your life as a musician.
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6 years ago
1 hour 15 minutes 22 seconds

Inside Opera
Kelley O'Connor: Pushing the Limits
A longtime friend of Evans Mirageas, mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor brings life and energy to this episode of “Inside Opera”. Evans and Kelley discuss her unlikely path to becoming an opera singer beginning at the age of five. Kelley discusses her changing voice and how it has influenced the roles she receives. Learn why and how she challenges herself by “stepping out of the box” and her advice for young singers.
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6 years ago
57 minutes 16 seconds

Inside Opera
In Conversation With Stephen Lawless
Evans sits down with Director Stephen Lawless - director of Cincinnati Opera’s performance of “The Marriage of Figaro” – to discuss how Stephen got his start, his directing career, the amazing people he has worked with and all the wonderful experiences he has had in the directorial profession. Stephen’s advice to young directors trying to make a name for themselves? Find out what your directorial voice is, what you want to see, and what you like seeing.
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6 years ago
1 hour 7 minutes 2 seconds

Inside Opera
Matthew Ozawa: Collaborative Origami
Director Matthew Ozawa- director of Cincinnati Opera’s performance of “Romeo and Juliet” - talks with Evans about how he fell in love with opera, how he created his career out of the world of instrumental music and into directing, his interesting heritage, and how he gets people to “play well together”. Learn why “be kind to everybody” is one of Matthew’s directorial mottos and how collaboration is like the art of origami.
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6 years ago
59 minutes 36 seconds

Inside Opera
Susanna Phillips: Balance
Evans Mirageas sits down with soprano Susanna Phillips, who played the Countess Almaviva in Cincinnati Opera’s production of “The Marriage of Figaro”. Evans and Susanna discuss her distinct voice, how one begins a career, the fulfillment of motherhood and balancing life with career, and how to be yourself. Susanna’s piece of advice? “Do you. Don’t try to be anyone else.”
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6 years ago
57 minutes 46 seconds

Inside Opera
Janai Brugger: Hurry Slowly
Evans sits down with Janai Brugger to discuss what it’s like to be a working mom, the first time Janai got goosebumps listening to opera- she was six years old- how she recognizes the voices of her fellow opera singers, and how to create “legato”.
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6 years ago
57 minutes 16 seconds

Inside Opera
An Interview With Omer Ben Seadia
Omer Ben Seadia, Director of Cincinnati Opera’s production of “Ariadne auf Naxos,” sits down with Evans to discuss how she got her start in opera, how she played hookie from the Israeli army to be in rehearsals, and how she engages with the operatic art form.
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6 years ago
59 minutes 32 seconds

Inside Opera
Opera Rap: Naomi André and Morris Robinson
In this live-audience recording, author of “Black Opera” Naomi André and bass opera singer Morris Robinson - star of Cincinnati Opera’s 2019 production of “Porgy and Bess” - sit down with Evans to discuss the African American operatic experience.
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6 years ago
1 hour 14 minutes 42 seconds

Inside Opera
Reflections With Nicole Cabell
Nicole Cabell is preparing for her role as Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet” in her sixth appearance with the Cincinnati Opera . Listen as she reflects on her career as well as her friendship with Artistic Director Evans Mirageas. and find out what Nicole Cabell and a  racehorse have in common .
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6 years ago
1 hour 8 minutes 18 seconds

Inside Opera
Lineman to La Scala: Morris Robinson
How does a college football player with hopes for the NFL become a world-renowned operatic bass and Artistic Adviser for Cincinnati Opera? Listen as Morris Robinson chats with Artistic Director Evans Mirageas about his dynamic career and inspiring story.
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7 years ago
54 minutes 11 seconds

Inside Opera
Laura Kaminsky on Opera's Future
Composer and activist Laura Kaminsky staged her flagship opera As One for the first time in 2014. Since then, it has been produced over twenty times, making it the most-performed contemporary opera in the U.S. Listen as Artistic Director Evans Mirageas talks with Kaminsky about her unusual path to becoming a composer, her past work, and the story behind her groundbreaking chamber opera.
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7 years ago
1 hour 5 minutes

Inside Opera
American opera director Robin Guarino chats with Evans about her work both on and off the stage. From her time being the first female stagehand at the Metropolitan Opera to her current position as the J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair in Opera at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, she has made it her mission to combine blend art with activism. Hear about her experience directing both modern masterpieces and older classics as well as her run-ins with the biggest opera names of the 20th century!