Thrilled to Announce Charlotte Jackson & Perri di Christina

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 homestays, ghost cats who hate singing, vengeful on-stage spirits, prophetic pre-audition dreams, and MORE!! 



We’re all haunted by specters of singers past, possessed by them every time we steal ornaments from old recordings… this art form is a way of communicating w spirit; one hand holding onto the memory of all the beautiful shit we’ve made in the past, the other swimming through the murky waters of the present towards an uncharted, glimmering future...


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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 twitter, and a phd student genius!!

We followed Sylvia to the met’s production of don Giovanni like two little puppy dogs to get an inside look at the critic’s PROCESS: what are they thinking about when they sit down to watch a production they plan on reviewing? Do they take notes? Should a reviewer lean into The Dunk, or resist it with all their might? Are we all addicted to the dunk, or can we stomach sincerity and nuance? Should we ask that woman who had an org*sm at Tchaik V to come on the pod??? We discuss all of this and more on this, our most Sylvia-filled episode yet! 


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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 observations, and read poems to each other lol. We mediate on loss, growth, and bearing witness to joy. We had a lot of fun free associating, connecting our favorite thinkers and tarot card archetypes to our emotional landscapes. How can we incorporate thee fool into our self concepts???? How does the met exist within all of us, a looming and threatening and powerful dream? Is the met our shadow? Finally, We asked YOU GUYS what words and phrases you associate with the met competition and giggled about them. Love u!!


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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 fluctuating and flexible identity, both in rehearsal and in life. It’s so deliciously easy to form our self-understanding around a stiff and rigid self-concept… what changes when we soften our idea of ourselves? 

THEN, in a new segment called TTA Hits the Streets, We TRAVEL to a real LIVE rehearsal of ‘the smallest sound in the smallest space’, a piece by Bryce McClendon, produced by The Why Collective, and premiering at The Cell Theater TONIGHT omg!!! Lovingly referred to as a “plopera” (play + opera), we ran around one of their dress rehearsals, interviewing the cast, crew, and production team. We truly had a blast!!

Behind the scenes at the Plopera starts at 49:01!


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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 fall. We’ve wanted to have them on the pod for a long long time, and we’re so excited that we finally made it happen. For those few who may not know James, they have blown up over the past year because of their posts detailing in depth discussions around vocal technique across the ages and ongoing issues in the opera industry, especially around young artists collective power. They are a voice teacher and a cultural critic. ( The Joan Rivers of opera discourse?). They have an interesting way of blending technical discussion, social critiques of the industry, and humor in their posts. We had a blast chit chatting about the role of the critic, the radical act of ENJOYING your own singing, swinging big, taking risks, honing your aesthetic ear and moral compass, working against the assumption that the singer is a perpetual student, and of course the sopranos. We hope u enjoy love u lots!!


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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 for us. What started as a simple question (‘what would our dream rehearsal process look like?’) turned into a beautiful, twisty-turny, unanswerable labyrinth of interwoven thread.

What would it feel like to have the genuine opportunity to fully realize our dreams in the opera world, in our vocal technique, and beyond? Why do we feel incapable of carving out non-normative paths in our lives? How has this lack of capability impacted our art-making and our life-living? We’ve returned to our verbose, esoteric, giggly selves to explore CHOICE, anti-hierarchy, weird rehearsal vibes, and liminality. Join us on this journey!


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