Hello and welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow. I’d like to send a special Mighty fine Mighty fine and a great big howdy out to the new listeners tuning into to the show from all over the world via operamusicbroadcast.com, welcome to a whole side of opera you won’t hear about in opera news, opera digest, or anything else with a glossy cover and the words Opera printed on it… Here we take off the bow ties, chuck the pipes out the window of that ivory tower and get down to the nitty gritty.
This week’s guest comes to you straight from Music City USA, Nashville Tennessee, where we just wrapped up an incredible production of Pagliacci starring Liz Caballero, Alan Glassman, Dean Anthony, yours truly, and this week’s guest, Todd Thomas, who sang Tonio with the kind of authority that only a lifetime of experience can bring to this incredibly complex character. Todd is a B12 shot to your corpus operaticus ~ talking to him about the craft he loves just feels you with a renewed energy and sense of well being; to anyone having a career crisis or struggling with self-doubt, this episode is definitely for you. Todd’s easy manner and gentle spirit is definitely a balm, and will calm the rough places on your operatic soul.
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So, pour yourself a libation, pull up your camp chair, and warm yourself at the campfire that is the warmth and good nature of Todd Thomas, on the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow.
mic envy
“it seems like i’ve always been married”
a teenager with 2 opera singers, how does THAT feel?
Classical Singer profile piece
The only time you have balance, is when you’re dead
the 3-4 weeks at home shakes
this is an emotionally dynamic life
you have to have a rock
The “you’re basically a single mom” barb
Are you about ready to give this up now?
Every time you walk onstage is the culmination of a lifetime of work, up to that point
The Plan B trap
How’s the artist tonight? … Who?
To be called an artist is truly a great artist
Unlike with photography, there will never be an app that makes you a great singer
Sometime you gotta unplug
The prism of self-interest and career advice with respect to coaches/acc/teachers
The “burden” of unconditional support
The rewards outweigh the costs, and that’s why you keep doing it
The night my daughter was born everything changed, I saw God that night
Transplanting families
Absagen
HERR THOMAS!!!
People are yelling at me in German
The midwife giving the Intendant the 5th degree
Todd’s midwife to his intendant upon his urging Todd to leave his wife’s side during labor “Ins theater du hast eine probe, hier wir haben eine premier.”
we all need a Frau Heidorn in our lives
KINDERGELD!
I can’t even visualize Nic Muni without a beret
The Maoettes
Nobody in europe looks at you like an alien when you tell them what you do
Its hard to get respect in your hometown
The hometown discount
You gotta make your own fun
The Best. Pagliacci. Ever.
Living I Pagliacci
The Pag Tent City
Occupy Opera
Having Dean Anthony is like having an entire circus all in one person
sadly, there are no more tours
You just had church
