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The Big COC Podcast Episode 22
By Danielle D'OrnellasPosted in The Big COC PodcastBy Gianmarco Segato, Adult Programs Manager
For Episode 22, the “All cross-over, all the time” edition, we welcome back opera journalist Paula Citron and opera conductor Stephen Lord, and joining The Big COC Podcast for the first time is Jenna Douglas, a Toronto-based collaborative pianist and founder of the new opera blog, Schmopera. Gianmarco Segato, the COC’s Adult Programs Manager is your host.
This episode’s stories all somehow settled around that eternal question of “How the heck do we manage to keep opera ‘relevant’?”
- Everyone’s getting in on the HD craze as ENO and Royal Opera House join the mix but, “Will cinema kill the opera star?” and… at what cost to the audience for live opera?
- Biggest opera news so far this year…hands down, Renée Fleming singing the American national anthem at the Super Bowl!
- Popera diva Katherine Jenkins wants to save opera from the elites; calls herself an “ordinary person” and then…sips champagne at the Ritz!
- Just when you thought you were safe… the return of the opera tweeter!
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