6 UK Opera Podcasts
In need of some podcast variety? This should help. We’ve got six podcasts about opera for you, all of which are hosted and produced in the UK. If you’re after even more recommendations, check out 5 Podcasts about Black Classical Musicians or 10 Classical Podcasts Created During Lockdown. Please consider supporting us in creating more content by tipping us on Ko-fi. It’s easy, it’s quick and it’s the price of a coffee! Thank you.
Two 20-something opera singers have adopted the pseudonyms of Ros and Adele to anonymously discuss how their experiences in the industry relate to wider issues on a global scale. They expose issues of sexism, exploitation and inequality within the classical music industry and suggest paths for change. Packed with tea, laughs, rants and FML stories, this podcast aims to analyse how the opera world is truly a microcosm of the world at large!
🐦 @FachPod on Twitter
A backstage pass to the opera world. Stage director and industry insider Nina Brazier chats to guests from all corners of the opera industry – both on and off the stage – exploring the influences and obstacles that shaped their journeys, and discovering how they each found a unique operatic voice.
🐦 @TheOperaPod on Twitter
Confessions of life as an opera singer. Avi and Ash are recent alumni from the Royal Academy of Music who are embarking on their own journeys as professional singers. Hear the highs and lows as they navigate opera life. Why not start with episode 39, featuring our very own co-founder Hannah Fiddy?
📸 @aaoperapod on Instagram
You’re invited backstage by young opera singers Alex and Helen for an access-all-areas account of the weird and wonderful world of classical singing. You’ll hear the conversations which only really take place behind dressing room doors: Coronavirus meltdowns, audition disasters and performance highlights.
📸 @dressingroompod on Instagram
The monthly Operacast pod shares the latest news, reviews, interviews and general chat from the world of opera. It’s produced by Northern Opera Group, which performs rare and wonderful operas in imaginative ways. They produce a range of professional and community operas, and run the annual Left Bank Opera Festival in Leeds.
🐦 @operacastpod on Twitter
Genevieve Raghu, Artistic Director of Into Opera, talks to professionals from the opera industry about their journeys into opera, the big choices they have made during their careers and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on their lives, work and creativity.
Hannah Fiddy is a creative entrepreneur, developing new audiences for classical music. She has created and promoted numerous concerts outside of traditional spaces, including warehouses, pubs, clubs, museums, hospitals, prisons and even in Primark. Hannah is also an interviewer, writer and guest lecturer, and runs the Avon Chamber Choir in Bristol. In a past life she founded London Flashmob, producing quirky events from wedding proposals to cultural pranks for up to 1,000 people.
Follow Hannah on Twitter @Hannah_Fiddy.