25 Best Opera Podcasts

1. LA Opera Podcasts : Behind the Curtain

We are here to provide an opportunity to collectively enjoy the rich aesthetic, emotional, intellectual and cultural experience of opera. We serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, pioneering spirit and artistic sensibility unique to Los Angeles.
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Play⋅ 56.7K⋅ 43.1K⋅ 47.2K ⋅2 episodes / week ⋅ Avg Length 32 min ⋅ Sep 2011 Get Email Contact

2. Capital Public Radio

Host Sean Bianco brings you a full-length opera featuring great voices from the past and present followed by 'Opera Potpourri.'
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Play⋅ 36.4K⋅ 18.6K⋅ 4.5K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ May 2014 Get Email Contact

3. Met Opera Guild Podcast

Welcome to the Metropolitan Opera Guild Podcast! We are very excited to be presenting opera lectures, artist interviews, and much more in this new and exciting platform. Metropolitan Opera Guild is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the Metropolitan Opera by expanding its reach to diverse communities and a wider audience.
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Play⋅ 8.2K⋅ 11.3K ⋅2 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 56 min Get Email Contact

4. Opera Offstage

Los Angeles, California, US
Opera Offstage explores the grey area between music school and a professional career. We're here to discuss those important skills and topics that leave you wondering, Wait, how the heck did I not learn about this earlier? From audition season and recitals to fitness and finances, join us as we talk, joke, and complain about everything it takes to be a classical musician in the modern world.
Also in Audition Podcasts
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Play⋅ 533⋅ 57 ⋅10 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 40 min ⋅ Mar 2020 Get Email Contact

5. AA Opera

London, England, UK
Welcome to AA Opera! A podcast all about the backstage confessions of not only what it takes to make opera happen but who are the people who make it happen and what can we learn from them!
anchor.fm/aa-opera
Play⋅ 429⋅ 79 ⋅15 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 53 min ⋅ Aug 2019 Get Email Contact

6. Opera Box Score

Chicago, Illinois, US
Live each week on WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago, and re-released as a podcast via iTunes, we are America's weekly talk radio show about the opera period. We tackle everything about opera and body slam it into a sports talk radio set-up. This podcast gives sixty minutes of in-depth analysis, outrageous opinions, and good clean fun.
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Play⋅ 910⋅ 265 ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 59 min Get Email Contact

7. Opera Unbound

US
Opera Unbound is a podcast that breaks the barriers between opera singers and the audience. We cover the process, challenges, stereotypes, and inspirations associated with opera. Rachelle Moss and Mike Heitmann co-host the opera podcasts and create videos. They have unique perspectives from which they will share experiences and thoughts.
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Play 1 episode / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 29 min ⋅ May 2020 Get Email Contact

8. Opera For Everyone

US
Opera for Everyone is a radio show and podcast that makes opera understandable, accessible, and enjoyable for all. Pat Wright hosts the show, inviting guest co-hosts to participate in the mission she and Keely Herron developed after lively discussions of operas they had enjoyed seeing together.
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Play⋅ 279 ⋅2 episodes / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 122 min ⋅ Aug 2017 Get Email Contact

9. Operacast

UK
The podcast for all the latest news, reviews, interviews, and general chat from the opera world.
operacast.co.uk
Play⋅ 660⋅ 551 ⋅3 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 53 min Get Email Contact

10. Forum Opera

This is the French magazine podcast which is entirely dedicated to opera. To know more on this, subscribe with us.
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10.5K ⋅2 episodes / month ⋅ Sep 2007 Get Email Contact

11. Central City Opera Podcast

Central City Opera, Colorado
Central City Opera is the fifth oldest opera company in the United States. The company produces a summer Festival every year in Central City, Colorado, featuring singers, musicians, designers, directors, and conductors at the top of their fields from all over the world. Join host Emily Murdock as she interviews the movers and shakers of the Central City Opera summer Festival.
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Play⋅ 7.8K⋅ 10.7K⋅ 1.7K ⋅8 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 41 min ⋅ Jun 2016 Get Email Contact

12. The Art of Opera

Melbourne, Australia
'The Art of Opera' is a behind the scenes glimpse into the art form and the world of Victorian Opera. Join conductors, directors, designers and opera singers as they share stories about bringing a performance to the stage.
victorianopera.com.au
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13. Take the Stage Opera

US
Singing can be hard, but we want to encourage all singers with positive motivation. We provide actionable takeaways without all the shame so that you can reignite the spark and continue on your journey to developing the career of your dreams!
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Play⋅ 353 ⋅30 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 19 min ⋅ Oct 2020 Get Email Contact

14. Aria Code

New York City, New York, US
Aria Code is a podcast that pulls back the curtain on some of the most famous arias in opera history, with insight from the biggest voices of our time, including Plácido Domingo, Diana Damrau, Sondra Radvanovsky, and many others. Each episode dives into one aria, a feature for a single singer and explores how and why these brief musical moments have imprinted themselves in our collective consciousness and what it takes to stand on the Met stage and sing them.
Also in WNYC Podcasts
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Play⋅ 22.2K⋅ 8.6K⋅ 4.2K ⋅3 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 39 min ⋅ Nov 2018 Get Email Contact

15. Opera Now

Long Beach
Opera Now, the opera podcast that brings you all the weekly news in the opera world. For more updates on this, subscribe with us.
operanowpodcast.com
Play⋅ 1K ⋅3 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 56 min ⋅ Dec 2006 Get Email Contact

16. In Tune with Opera Philadelphia

Learn more about Opera Philadelphia productions through the informative audio magazine, In Tune with the Opera Philadelphia, a series of podcasts on upcoming pieces.
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Play Oct 2010 Get Email Contact

17. Wagner Operas Podcasts

Welcome to the world of composer Richard Wagner. Wagner is best remembered for the operas he composed; works which changed the course of Western music, and the craft of theatrical staging. This website is an examination of the life of this composer. It is a journey that will shed light on the man and his work, whether you are a beginner or a seasoned Wagnerite.
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Play Apr 2006 Get Email Contact

18. XM Divas

Charlotte, NC
Megan Miller and Xela Pinkerton, both professional opera singers, have set forth to bring you their uncensored opinion on the stigmas and stereotypes that surround the world of Opera. Listen in on their crazy journeys as they give listeners a sneak peek behind the curtain and into the lives of today's modern opera singers, wine addictions, health & fitness routines while traveling, insight on how opera has influenced every damn commercial on TV today.
xmdivas.com/episodes
Play⋅ 276⋅ 56⋅ 445 ⋅1 episode / year ⋅ Avg Length 37 min Get Email Contact

19. A Trip Down Soap Lane

A Trip Down Soap Lane is the ultimate soap opera history podcast. Take a trip all the way back to the beginning of soap operas till the present day. This podcast explores all the amazing history, storylines and characters that have made soap operas so memorable over the years. The podcast includes special audio features, trivia, and so much more.
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Play Mar 2018 Get Email Contact

20. Opera After Dark

Forget what you thought you knew about classical music, and leave your preconceived notions at the door. From the creators of the Met Opera Guild Podcast, Opera After Dark is a journey into the surprisingly wild, sometimes sexy, ALWAYS weird world of classical music. Join us as we settle in, open a bottle of wine, get tipsy, and discuss and share the crazy stories and bizarre facts about the 'high art- opera' that we love.
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21. Buick City 1AM

'Buick City, 1:00 AM' is a podcast opera about a woman traveling back in time to 1984 to prevent the murder of her father, an auto-worker in Flint, Michigan.
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Play Nov 2018 Get Email Contact

22. Vancouver Opera Offstage

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Vancouver Opera Offstage is an audio podcast with host Les Dala, chorus director, and associate conductor with Vancouver Opera. Join Les for this podcast as he chats with opera experts, artists, Vancouver Opera staff, and others to explore the world of opera on and off the stage. This podcast offers an insider's glimpse into the artistry, experiences, and perspectives of the talent involved in taking breathtaking opera productions from the page to the stage.
Also in Conductor Podcasts
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Play⋅ 17.2K⋅ 13K ⋅8 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 24 min ⋅ Apr 2020 Get Email Contact

23. Destination Santa Fe Opera

Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Your destination for exclusive conversations with the people behind the stories, music, and splendor onstage at the Santa Fe Opera.
santafeopera.org/c..
Play⋅ 30.8K⋅ 19.8K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 41 min ⋅ Jun 2019 Get Email Contact

24. Sex, Drugs, and Opera Podcast

This podcast is all about having fun. In addition to conversations that relate to singers' experiences in the profession, the podcast also engages in more creative activities such as recasting operas with famous actors and hosting contests.
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Play⋅ 3.8K⋅ 180 ⋅11 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 67 min ⋅ Apr 2018 Get Email Contact

25. Indie Opera Podcast

New York, NY
The Indie Opera Podcast is the place to go to for news about where opera is headed. We focus on companies that are creating new operas and who are presenting the classics in new ways for wider audiences, no matter how big or small. We focus on the opera production, in the trenches where new work is created and the future opera is being openly debated.
indieopera.com/arc..
Play⋅ 601⋅ 579 ⋅1 episode / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 81 min ⋅ Mar 2011 Get Email Contact