In the first installment of this two-part episode, we talk with Viswa Subbaraman about starting a contemporary opera company, the role of the orchestra, and why we need to be able to communicate with administration and marketing.
This week we discuss:
- Accidentally studying with Kurt Masur
- Skylight Music Theatre
- Beethoven meets Bollywood
- How Fidelio is like a Bollywood film
- Beethoven meets Bollywood
- Relevant Opera vs Rented Opera
- First opera, then orchestra
- Opera Vista
- “Powder Her Face makes Wozzeck looks easy”
- Flexibility in the pit
- And the myriad difficulties of performing in an opera
- Teaching style to the orchestra
- Starting an opera company
- What is the role of an orchestra?
- “We’ve let the business of our art get away from us.”
- “We have the most idiotic art form in the world.”
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