Thrilled to Announce

Domming social media platforms and crashing out on YAPtracker with Ariadne Greif

On today's episode, we are THRILLED and HONORED to chat with the star 1-of-1 soprano Ariadne Greif! She has premiered over 100 new works all around the world with the coo

Classical Music Social Media Anthropology 101

Welcome to Classical Music Social Media Anthropology 101. Please take out your syllabus and have a seat. We take a magnifying glass, and microscope, a thoughtful gaze an

To dead things and the mutable past

We dissect the idea of a fixed, unchanging past and futures colored by the deaths we experience through Handel arias, Lynch's death, Yuval Sharon's 'A New Philosophy of O

opera is undead, the 'it' girl will save us

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! In this episode we discuss: - Being maximalists - Braiding our hair - This Peter Gelb op-ed - This Alex Ross article - This it girl article - T

CRINGE: Part 1

Is opera cringe? Are you cringe? Let's find out together :) Charlotte & Perri discuss the cringe inherent in performance through the theories of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jia Tol

Terrified to Announce: A Halloween SPECTACULAR

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!! A few weeks ago we asked you guys to tell us all about your paranormal operatic experiences, and this episode is full of those stories!!! Haunted hom

Review Theories Pt. 2: an interview with critic and cool person Sylvia Korman

Sylvia's Don Giovanni review!! We are SO excited to share our convo with THEE Sylvia Korman!! They are an opera critic for Parterre Box, owner of @peoplemadatopera on tw

Meditations and Musings on Meaning at the Met Competition

Welcome to our MET COMPETITION EPISODE!!!! We snuck our gigantic microphones into the metropolitan opera HOUSE to chit chat with friends old and new, share our observatio

Flexible identities, ‘bad’ reviews, and behind the scenes at a Plopera™️

We giggle at the bad reviews we’ve gotten over the years and read some of the haunting reviews you all sent us on insta. Then we start to flesh out a theory about fluctua

Slurping Oysters and Swinging Big: a convo w/ Haus of Shmizzay

Hi everyone :) we are so thrilled and pumped to share our gorgeous convo w James aka hausofshmizzay on instagram. We connected close to a year ago and met irl this past f

The Bridge between What Is and What Can Be

WE’RE BACK BABIES!!!! Strap in, hunker down, pack a snack, because this one is a doozy. This magnum opus of an episode is the beginning of a gigantic exploration process

A Conversation with Members of the BOA: In it for the long haul

NEW EP ALERT!!!!!!! We are so excited to share this awesome convo we had with a couple of members of the Black Opera Alliance Leadership Council. Zyda Culpepper reached

Chit Chat: Mercury Retrograde and Audition Season Dialectics

CHITCHAT ALERT! We really really love this cozy, autumnal, juicy convo. Charlotte goes deep into Mercury retrograde and its effects on the Chautauqua situation we covered

K-POP Universe & YAP Universe Collide *PATREON TEASER*

Hello dearest sweetie little friends! We’re back with this month’s ~*~Patreon teaser mini-ep~*~. We have the LITERAL international Superstar Blake Jennings, who you know

Nancy Drew and The Case Of Chautauqua Opera

Like many of you, we were pretty taken aback when we heard through a leaked email that Chautauqua Opera hired former young artists to judge their 2022 prescreen applicati

An Artist's Proverbial Winterreise *PATREON TEASER*

When we were planning our patreon and our next steps for this fall season of our podcast / our lives, we realized that we want Thrilled to Announce to grow into a collect

Decolonizing Broken Voices

Oh HEY! Welcome to a gigantic honking episode. What started as an episode about The Time Perri Broke Her Voice very quickly transformed into a manifesto on decolonizing o

Chit Chat: From Sunscreen to Social Safety Nets

OMG hi we love this lil chit chat!!! The perf balance of the Big Three: ~~~Current Opera Events~~~Skincare~~~Theory~~~ ! Pls consider going to our link in bio to sign th

Chit Chat: Black Opera Alliance ~*~*SPOTLIGHT*~*~

Hello sweet and beautiful friends : ) we decided to spend this week’s Chitchat chitchatting about Black Opera Alliance. They’ve been working tirelessly on the Pledge for

Chit Chat: Life’s a Highway and We’re Gonna Ride It

Guys… we have…. A new…. Idea! And it’s now Aries season so we Immediately Did It. We are going to start doing teeny tiny mini episodes ~interspersed~ between our longer e