Divas, Ingénues & Vixens Podcast

The Voices We Carry: Andrea Ramsey's Suffrage Cantata

The Voices We Carry: Andrea Ramsey's Suffrage Cantata What happens when the words of women who fought for the right to vote become music for a new generation? Composer A

ENCORE: Mozart Reels Us In - Le Nozze di Figaro

ENCORE: Mozart Reels Us In — Le Nozze di Figaro What happens when you hear artists describe their creative choices—and then watch those choices come to life onstage? Fr

All in a Day's Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro

All in a Day's Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro Disguises, desire, misunderstandings, and a whole lot of people hiding behind doors. Just another day in Mozart's Le Nozze di Fig

Creating Light When Days Grow Darker: Eileen Carey

As the days grow shorter and the world feels a little darker, where do we find the light? And what if we could create some of our own? Singer-songwriter Eileen Carey has

What We Bring Home: Miki P. and the Music of Ethno Jordan

What happens when musicians from around the world come together to share their songs, traditions, and stories? And what happens when the music follows them home? Kansas

A Language of Her Own: Ezgi Karakus

A Language of Her Own: Ezgi Karakus What happens when an extraordinary classical cellist decides that one musical language simply isn't enough? Turkish-born, Kansas City

More and More Lauren: Finding Your Voice with Lauren Anderson

What happens when the opera singer you were at 22 grows into the blues artist you were always becoming? Lauren Anderson has spent years finding out. From classical voic

Find A Way: Joy Donze and Dede Lovejoy at Edinburgh Fringe

Seventy-five episodes. You dream about the thing. You do the thing. And somewhere along the way, you realize the thing has become something bigger than you imagined. Fo

Always Look Closer: Inside La Bohème with Three Sopranos

We think we know Mimì and Musetta. One is tender and quiet. The other enters a room determined to be seen. Ingénue and Vixen—easy. Except these women have never been qu

While She's Still Becoming

What does it actually take to build a creative life—and keep choosing it before you know exactly where it will lead? In While She’s Still Becoming, six Kansas City singe

A Room with an Open Door

Divas, Ingénues & Vixens® — S2E19: A Room with an Open Door Twenty-five years after September 11, Come From Away reminds us that sometimes the story we leave behind begi

The Song Is Never Finished

The Song Is Never Finished A songwriter creates it. A singer steps inside it. And somewhere between the first note and the last, a song can become something no one quite

Why Not Here? - Middle of Everywhere Festival

What happens when someone looks at a small Kansas town and thinks: Why not here? In Humboldt, Kansas, singer-songwriter and community builder Damaris Kunkler dreamed up

Imagine who She might become

Nearly fifty years ago, two Kansas City women imagined a stage where women in jazz could be heard—and then they built it. Author, educator, and musician Carolyn Glenn Br

WICKED: Look to the Western Sky

We know the green skin, the broom, and the songs. But what happens when you follow Wicked beyond the Broadway stage? With Wicked returning to Kansas City, Amity revisits

When Music Smells Like Magic

Every episode begins as an invitation. This week, I invite you into one more conversation with my dear friends Lauren and Taylor of Apothogothic as we explore Mystic, a

The Beat that Broke the Wall

Can a dance floor reunite a nation? When the Berlin Wall fell, politicians worked to reunify a country—but artists, musicians, and everyday people found another way to r

Goin' Somewhere with Jillian Riscoe

Where are you headed—and what's keeping you from taking the next step? Kansas City singer-songwriter Jillian Riscoe joins me to celebrate the release of her new single,

More than Gold

What if music is humanity's oldest form of alchemy? For two seasons I've shared stories about opera, singer-songwriters, Shakespeare, cities, and remarkable women. This w

Permission to Create: Inside the KC Fr!nge Festival

What happens when artists realize they don't need permission? This week on Divas, Ingénues & Vixens, Amity explores the remarkable story of the KC Fringe Festival—where