Welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow~ I am your host, Michael Mayes here to bring you your weekly dose of dysfunctional operatic unconventionality . This week’s guest is another one of those folks in the business with whom it’s simply a joy to sit down and shoot the breeze with. “Collaborative Artist” Mo. Michael Borowitz aka the Super Conductor one of the more prolific conductors in the business. With positions at Nevada Opera, LSU, Opera Louisiane as well as his free lance work across the country~ this is a man with many irons in the fire, and a healthy perspective on the business. If your looking for a positive outlook and a good laugh about the Opera business, you need look no further than the Super Conductor himself.
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Now, sit back, pour yourself a nice tall glass of gin, and enjoy episode 26 with special guest, Michael Borowitz, the SUPER CONDUCTOR!
Geux Tigers? Isn’t that more like Joe?
Go box? no GEAUX box… sheesh
Sent from my iPhone on the beaux… LORD MAKE IT STOP
GET OUTTA MY SPOT YOU ARTSY FARTSY WEIRDO! i got some tailgating to do
The LSU cult
Mardi Gras, put on a mask and make out with a stranger
Full on OperaCamp mode
Super Conductor, Man of Mystery
SO. HOT. IN. AUGUST.
The North Texas Blast Furnace
I got Texfoliated~ I just walk outside naked and let the wind and grit take it off
Mozartean Recit misapropriation
In your pleasure garden, i feel my pleasure harden.
anything in 3/4 is acceptable
“It’s like Rent, ‘cept they replaced the TB with the AIDS
Pippa Passes?
No handguns warnings in places where it SHOULD BE ASSUMED
Handgun iPhone… the iGun or iTaser
BACK IN MY DAY WE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE NICO CASTEL
Bob Merril would have had his nose buried in that Castel book
It’ll just be there
I was a singer, just long enough
Collaborative Piano?
“we really think you ought to stick to playing the piano”
Maybe you should stick to being a carouser, you’re much better at that than singing
Conducting on the stage
Today I’m a little backed up, the tempi are going to be slow
Let your singers GO, or GEAUX
Stephen Lord is unfuckingbelievable, he is an amazing human being
DAMN THOSE PAPGENO PIPES
I got a big mouth, and the holes are tiny, that’s why I can’t go back to Vietnam
Editorializing dialogue
Subtext is not dialogue
The Cursed Boheme
Flexibility!
Extra High notes + Cut aria? bad choice
No stigma in the pit about being a throat?
You have to watch the face of a singer, and the center of a dancer
If the singers aren’t comfortable, everyone else is screwed
Mutual respect between the stage and the pit
Reveling in the texture while I am singing
Ah, the long lost sitz
The AHA moment in a singer’s eyes
WIth sex and music, you can’t go back.
Mobile Homes produce opera
Singing Opera in the mobile home
What’s wrong with that Borowitz boy?
The second I stopped mowing the grass, Dad buys a RIDING LAWNMOWER
Come on home and stay for a week, Son!
I go home, and I turn 12 all over again
Bloody Knuckles
I was a bit of a firebug when I was a kid
Charred hillsides abound in Michael’s childhood
sent to the room to think about his actions, and, practice arias
Fire and Vice
Singing save my life
I’d be a smoker if I wasn’t a singer
IT JUST LOOKS SO COOL!
Oh booze
Gin is the best self medication ever
Your Drunkle Jerry
Eldon and his Patron Shots
Mess you down
How many pies do you have your fingers in?
That’s a lot of pie for one man…
Mike Mayes is coming…. watch out!!!
So man million dollar looking sopranos
Reformed singer
I’m easy~
I played the viola part with my left hand, and conducted with my right…..
SUPER CONDUCTOR
Nevada Opera, Opera Louisiane, Louisiana State University, Ohio Light
Just say yes
Thanks for the arthritis Jake Heggie
I CHOOSE MOBILITY
Rigoletto in a Hoverround
Hoverrounds climb stairs????
It helps to be a homosexual
I don’t have to listen , I don’t want to have sex with you.
