Melanie Milton, Singer and Festival Producer for The Protoype Festival joins Chuck Sachs to talk about how the Festival has changed, now that it has it’s own independent leadership. Notes Credits: Chuck Sachs, interviewer; Peter Szep producer/editor

Chuck Sachs interviews Singer and Writer Joseph Keckler who’s Train With No Midnight, is running at HERE Dorothy B. Williams Theatre as part of the Prototype Festival 2019. Notes Credits: Chuck Sachs, interviewer; Peter Szep producer/editor

The Prototype Festival has started and runs through January 13th in New York. Chuck interviews Leah Coloff, Composer, Cellist, Singer and Performer who’s ThisTree investigates the vantage point of being the last branch on the family tree. Notes Credits: Chuck Sachs, interviewer; Peter Szep producer/editor

Evan Mack joins us to share his innovative ideas for opera, including a twitter opera, a setting of the Kennedy supreme court ruling on gay marriage, Yeltsin in Texas, and more. His opera The Ghosts of Gatsby will be performed at the National Opera Center January 11, 2019. Notes: Evan Mack, Composer Paul Tonko, representative…Continue reading Podcast 57: Evan Mack and The Ghosts of Gatsby

Opera professionals and mental health: On this episode, co-host Brooke Larimer talks with soprano Katy Lindhart and soprano/mental health counselor Inna Dukach about mental health issues on the opera stage. How do performers cope with the unique pressures of the opera business? And how can we as individuals and as members of the opera community…Continue reading Podcast 56: Opera and Mental Health with Inna Dukach and Katy Lindhart