OperaNow! #219: Live, From Music Academy of the West

Our first live show, from sunny Santa Barbara...

The Met union struggles continue but with some light at the end of the tunnel...Germany saves the day once again with opera jobs...Tamar Iveri plans gay bash to make up for her previous gay bash...Is opera racist? (probably).

This week in Oliver's Corner, not even Marilyn Horne can get him off of his script about Act 2 of Carmen. 

Plus Guess Who Died?

This week features Michael, The OC, Jenny Rivera, Will Ferguson...and MARILYN HORNE!

Stick around till the end for a wonderful tribute to Carlo Bergonzi by our Friend in Venice who has worked with him for the last several years.

Comments

[zach]

I'm listening to the podcast now. You would think that after all these years Oliver would learn how to allow the rest of the panal feel welcome to express an opnion during Oliver's Corner. It cringed when Marilyn Horne had to ask if she could talk.

[John]

I got nervous about a live audience but you all kept a good pace - no dead air!!

[Cam]

Speaking of Tamar Iveri, Lyndon Terracini had a bit to say this week:

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Lyndon Terracini was on a flight to Perth when the story of Tamar Iveri, the Georgian soprano whose homophobic Facebook message put Opera Australia in a PR spin in June, blew up on the internet. When he touched down in Western Australia late that night, he found it had blown up on his iPhone.

‘‘I arrived around 2am eastern time and stayed up all night dealing with it, nationally and internationally,’’ the company's artistic director says.

Terracini spent the next day in a workshop for The Rabbits, a new opera written by Kate Miller-Heidke that will open in Melbourne in October 2015, ducking in and out to make calls. As people began to wonder why Opera Australia hadn’t sacked the soprano immediately, Terracini boarded a flight at midnight back to Sydney, arriving at 6am. He called Iveri into his office at 9am; she resigned at 10.30am.

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The biggest lesson to be learned from the Iveri matter is a legal one, he says. ‘‘Most contracts were developed before social media was even thought of. Now they will be a lot more specific, in terms of what is acceptable. Contracts for every opera house in the world will be different now.’’

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source: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/opera/opera-australias-artistic-director-lyndon-terracini-unveils-lavish-2015-season-20140811-102qcd.html

@zach That's a bit harsh, mate.

[Tam]

Awesome show guys! Loved Oliver's Corner - Oliver, you are just getting better and better - and what an amazing treat to have Marilyn Horne there, in person - I loved how she just joined in with all the banter, it was great. I'm going to listen to this one again for sure. T

[bracs]

Hearing Marilyn Horne say that Von Otter's Carmen "sounded like she was all coked up" made for some pretty damn good radio.

[welshspelling]

Well done doing the podcast live everyone! I totally would have had the voice wobbles with Marilyn there.