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Join us as we chat with Stage Director Eve Summer and Costume Designer Austin Blake Conlee from our upcoming La traviata!

John Bellemer and Brandon Whitish join us to chat about all things #TraviataOC!

Join us as we chat with Kenneth Overton (Stage Director) and Everett McCorvey (Principal Guest Conductor).

Join us as we get to know Jonathan Pierce Rhodes (Valcour) and Matthew Pearce (Colin) and talk about all things #AnonymousLoverOC

Get to know Sidra Bell Who is part of the staging and choreographic direction team, and Mila Henry Who is the music Director and conductor for Old Man and the Sea

Get to know our Stage director Brandon McKnight when does making his opera Columbus directorial debut . you also may recognize them as are 23 through 25 crane directing fellow. We also have joining us Vanessa Ogbuehi who is our new Directing fellow !!!

Get to know our flowers in #RappacciniOC Cynthia Lopez Olaya, Skye Marie Johnson, and Anabella Petronsi, and learn more about OC’s upcoming Rappaccini‘s daughter.

Join us as we get to know Cecelia Violeta Lopez (Beatriz) and Monica Danilo Marquez (Isabella) and talk about all things #RappacciniOC

Femi Adeyanju joins us to reflect on his time as OC's Board President and our incredible 2024-25 Season!

Join us as we get to know Casey Robards (Music Director), Jorell Williams (Figaro) and Jessica Bayne (Susanna), and talk about all things #FigaroOC

Get to know Bruno (Stage Director), Brian (Count Almaviva) and Bizhou (Countess Almaviva) and learn about all things #FigaroOC

Join us as we get to know Isaac Tobler (Bernardo, leader of the Sharks) and Taylor Harley (Riff, leader of the Jets), and talk about all things #WestSideStory! West Side Story is a co-production with Opera Columbus, Columbus Symphony, CAPA and BalletMet.

Get to know Jadon Webster (Tony) and Cecilia Violetta López (Maria), and learn about all things West Side Story ! West Side Story is a co-production with Opera Columbus, Columbus Symphony, CAPA and BalletMet.

Get to know Erica Gabriel (Polly Peachum) and Robert Kerr (Mr. Peachum) and learn about all things #ThreepennyOC!

The grand return of some of our favorite artists! Everett McCorvey (Principal Guest Conductor), Tesia Kwarteng (Jenny) and Benjamin Dutcher (Mack the Knife) are back in Columbus for The Threepenny Opera! Get to know them, hear about all things #ThreepennyOC and learn a new opera-isms.

Get to know Erica Gabriel (Queen of the Night aka "Queenie) and Eric McKeever (Papageno aka "Papa), and learn about all things #TempleOC!

Join us as we get to know Allegra Libonati (Stage Director) and Que Jones (Music Director + English Librettist and Arranger), and talk about all things #TempleOC

Join us as we get to know Rosetta Cucchi (Stage Director) and Neil Fortin (Costume Designer), and talk about all things Eugene Onegin!

Opera and beer - what could be better?! Tune in to hear Rachel Will, Director of Advancement + Cooper-Bing Associate Producer at Opera Columbus, talk about all things Messiah Sing-Along Learn more about the event at OperaColumbus.org/MessiahSingAlong

Get to know our new OC friends, and hear all about the incredible things they are doing in the opera world! Brandon Shaw McKnight, 2023-24 CRANE Directing Fellow Katrina Fasulo, Opera America Mentorship Program for Women Administrators + Development Director at Opera Saratoga Dione Bennett, Creative Programs Manager

Get to know the incredible trio of Everett McCorvey (Music Director), Adam Diegel (Don José) and Richard Ollarsaba (Escamillo) of OC's upcoming Carmen!

Join us as we learn more about Sarah Danke (Director, 2022-23 CRANE Directing Fellow), Tesia Kwarteng (Carmen), and Hannah Bullock (Micaela), and talk about all things Carmen.

Julia, Jeannette and Kelsi chat all about OC's incredible 2023-24 Season

Learn all about Eve and Hilary, the upcoming OC + CSO’s Rigoletto, and two new opera-isms!!

Join us and while we learn more about Aubry & Cody and chat all things Rigoletto.

Learn all about our CRANE Directing Fellow, Sarah Dahnke, and Eric McKeever + everything going on with OC+CSO's Rigoletto! 

Rolando Salazar (Conductor of OC's Maria de Buenos Aires) and Monica Danilov-Marquez (Maria/Shadow Maria) join us to talk about all things Maria de Buenos Aires! Tune in to hear all of the behind-the-scenes and learn a new opera-ism: "Bandoneon"

Dennis Whitehead Darling (Director of Maria De Buenos Aires) and Paul La Rose (Payador/Porteno/ Ladron antiguo mayor/ Analista primero/ Voz de Ese Domingo) join us to talk about all things Maria de Buenos Aires!  Learn more about the artists, OC’s Maria de Buenos Aires, and opera-isms like “Bandoneon”

We sit and talk pop up Opera Columbus events, and Rigoletto with the phenomenal Robert Kerr! Read full transcript here / https://bit.ly/3HVnLV8

Meet the Step Sisters of Opera Columbus' La Cenerentola (Cinderella), and learn more about the show!

Listen to all of the exclusive inside details of our 2022-23 season! And learn more opera-isms: what do all the post-performance phrases mean?

Reminiscing on our fun (and sometimes crazy) times from our 2021-2022 Season and 40 Days of Opera! And get to know our new Marketing Manager, Kelsi Moore!

A delightful chat with the amazing Leslie Savoy Burrs , a World- Renowned Flautist and composer of Vanqui and I can’t breathe. Here we get To hear his process on composing Vanqui , and the new story telling and presentation  of the upcoming show and more! 

We had the chance to talk with Our Fellow Travelers Director Bruno Baker and Our (Timmy Laughlin) Brian Vu! Join us while we get a more personal view on the production.

On this very special episode we got to chat with our friends Michelle Johnson & Brian Major (Tosca) we talk what led them to Opera and, traveling, and what gives them their spark to make every roles theirs! THIS was truly an amazing convo and we hope you enjoy ! Transcription Here

Welcoming Jeannette Burchfield to Opera Columbus’s Social Media team. Exploring  the Opera -curious , and chatting about Lydia’s new Journey. Click here To read a transcript of this podcast.

This week we talk to our inaugural Directing Fellow, Luther Lewis III! Luther is truly a quadruple threat, if not a quintuple. We hope you enjoy learning all about him as much as we did! Click here to read about Luther in OperaWire. Click here for a transcript of the episode. 

In Today's episode, we cover all of the various probes (sitz, wandel, etc.), what is going on in the opera world, and MERCH! (Spoiler alert-- we give you a promo code) Click here for a transcript of the episode.

This week we are joined by the one, the only, Jorell Williams. He is the most magical, insightful, kind, and talented human and we know you will love this episode. Join us for an episode filled with tips, tricks, enlightenment, and really good jokes.  Click here for a transcription of the episode. 

Welcome back OC friends! This week we discuss our first event of the 21-22 season and take a deep dive into the definitions of supers and "fly-people." Enjoy! Click here for a transcript.

Hosts Julia Noulin-Mérat and Lydia Weyrich introduce the new Opera Columbus podcast, reflect on their first season together, and talk 21-22 (aka OC's 40th Anniversary season). Stick around until the end to hear this episode's opera-isms! Click here for a transcript. https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:098872b5-6400-4b8a-83d0-6a9dbfb0b3ce