POPeracast

Host Andreas Kraemer discusses the how POP is dealing with the COVID-19 crisis with Josh Shaw and sits down with Captain James T. Belmonte himself, tenor Brian Cheney.

Host Andreas Kraemer talks with L'enfant herself Kimberly Sogioka about being the glue that holds the double bill together. Tenor Jonathan Matthews discusses the acting side of being an opera singer. Newcomers Audrey Yoder, Sarabeth Belón, and conductor Joshua Horsch discuss creating an aural atmosphere with music. Get your tickets to the show at pacificoperaproject.com! Saturday February 1 at 7:00 PM Sunday February 2 at 3:00 PM

Host Andreas Kraemer has very serious conversations about art, opera, creativity, Dante's inferno, bad boys, scheming relatives, and forging wills with POP favorites Robert Norman, E. Scott Levin, Tiffany Ho, William Grundler, Joel Balzun, and newcomer Thomas Sitzler. Get your tickets to the show at pacificoperaproject.com! Saturday January 25 at 3:00 PM (Celebration Brunch at 1:00PM) Saturday February 1 at 7:00 PM Sunday February 2 at 3:00 PM

Host Andreas Kraemer previews the 10th POP season at a Gianni Schicchi/L'enfant et les Sortilèges rehearsal with Artistic Director Josh Shaw. Get your tickets to the show at pacificoperaproject.com! Saturday January 25 at 3:00 PM (Celebration Brunch at 1:00PM) Saturday February 1 at 7:00 PM Sunday February 2 at 3:00 PM

Andreas gets to know a whole new class of hipsters! We are so excited we got to talk to Janet Todd for a moment between scenes at a dress rehearsal. Luvi Avendano and Robert Norman explain how a character tenor and a bass baritone can share a triple-role. Newcomer Adam Cioffari discusses joining POP for the first time. Finally POP stalwart E. Scott Levin teases Gianni Schicchi next month! Two shows remaining in 2019! 12/13, and live-streamed on 12/14! All shows 8pm at the historic Highland Park Ebell Club. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB-n3vTuL9s

Andreas gets to know a whole new class of hipsters! Orson Van Gay and Parisa Zaeri discuss what it really means to be a hipster, Maria Dominique Lopez fiercely fills some (figuratively) big shoes, Kenneth Stavert gets goofy, and Josh Shaw discusses cat herding. Three shows remaining in 2019! 12/11, 12/13, and live-streamed on 12/14! All shows 8pm at the historic Highland Park Ebell Club. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB-n3vTuL9s

Just in time for closing weekend! E Scott Levin explains his workout (napping) regimen, Phil Meyer's voice is a baboon, Matthew Ian Welch keeps the Mikado secret safe, and Maggie Green drops absolute stunners in lightning round. The 2019 run of the Mikado is sold out, but you can catch our recorded livestream at https://youtu.be/tE1FxIjubM0 Subscribe to POPeracast and POP on YouTube to get notified about all future POP awesomeness!

Little maids Janet Todd, Tiffany Ho, and Abbe Drake and conductor Parisa Zaeri sit down with host Andreas Kraemer to discuss satire, shifting socio-political norms, intense pressure, and operetta. Get your Mikado tickets now! They are going fast! August 16, 17(two shows!), 22, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31 at the Highland Park Ebell Club

Andreas sits down with Charlie Kim and Josh Shaw to discuss The Mikado, Gilbert & Sullivan, cultural representation in opera, and lots more. Get your Mikado tickets now! They are going fast! August 16, 17(two shows!), 22, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31 at the Highland Park Ebell Club

Host Andreas Kraemer visits Madama Butterfly rehearsal! We talk with Keiko Clark, Kimberly Sogioka, Eiji Miura, Chelsea Obermeier, and Eiki Isomura about the show, and it gets intense.

Host Andreas Kraemer and POP Artistic Director Josh Shaw discuss POP's groundbreaking new concept of Puccini's Madama Butterfly with tenor Peter Lake (Pinkerton) and baritone Kenneth Stavert (Sharpless). See this fantastic production at the Aratani Theater in Little Tokyo on April 6, 13, and 14. Get your tickets now!

Host Andreas Kraemer sits down with E. Scott Levin, Andrew Potter, Ariel Pisturino, and Megan Potter to discuss video games, origin stories, and the vagaries of costume design. VERY FEW tickets to Magic Flute available March 8,9,10 at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood. Costume Contest and Pre-show "8bit covers" band The Extra Lives on Friday March 8! www.pacificoperaproject.com

Our visit to the Magic Flute rehearsal was too much awesome for a single episode, so here is the second part! POP's Queen of the Night Michelle Drever discusses elegant evil. Conductor Ed Benyas talks inventive stagings. We get a visit from three spirits (Emily Rosenberg, Amanda Benjamin, and Christine Marie Li), and Tara Wheeker joins us to discuss being the head minion. Tickets to Magic Flute available March 2,3,8,9,10 at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood. Costume Contest and Pre-show "8bit covers" band The Extra Lives on Friday March 8! www.pacificoperaproject.com

Host Andreas Kraemer visits a Magic Flute rehearsal to talk with Tamino Linkman (Arnold Livingston Geis), Zelda Pamina (Alexandra Schoeny), Wariostatos (Robert Norman), and enjoy the comedy stylings of Joshua Alarcon and Jonathan Matthews. Tickets to Magic Flute available March 2,3,8,9,10 at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood. Costume Contest and Pre-show "8bit covers" band The Extra Lives on Friday March 8! www.pacificoperaproject.com

Andreas and Artistic Director Josh Shaw discuss the exciting and ambitious 2019 POP season. The Magic Flute - March 2,3,8,9,10 at the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood Madama Butterfly, a new English/Japanese translation - April 6,13,14 at the Aratani Theater in Little Tokyo The Mikado - August 16, 17 (matinee), 17, 22, 23, 24, 28, 30, 31 at the Highland Park Ebell Club La bohème (AKA The Hipsters) - December 6, 7, 12, 13, 14 at the Highland Park Ebell Club All tickets on sale now!

Host Andreas Kraemer visits the set to speak with lovebirds Dane Suarez and Kerriann Otaño, influencer Elle Valera, the ever stoic Vincent Grana, true American hero E. Scott Levin, and music director Parisa Zaeri Reaves. Don't miss the livestream 12/21 at 8pm! Links on the POP homepage and Facebook page. Subscribe to the newly created POP Youtube Channel!

Andreas sits down with Maya Rothfuss, Aubrey Trujillo-Scarr, JJ Lopez, and Ben Lowe to discuss La boheme, Hipsters, love, opera, cats, and button-pushing.

Host Andreas Kraemer visits a La traviata rehearsal! We speak with Eric McKeever, Emily Rosenberg, Laura Zahn, conductor Jesse Leong, and POP comedic duo Balzun and Grundler. Stay tuned to the very end for a very special guest....

Maggie Green, Evie Banuelos, and Carson Gilmore talk about what happens behind the scenes at POP. Get your tickets to La traviata at Thorne Hall of Occidental College October 27 and 28!

Andreas sits down with Amanda and Orson to discuss life, love, and, of course, opera.

Andreas couldn't make this recording, but Josh Shaw steps in to interview Maria Dominique Lopez, Mercedes in Carmen at the Ford, and long time POP choreographer Amy Lawrence. They talk about choreography for opera singers, the mezzo voice, Carmen's cultural significance, and the rehearsal process. Carmen at the Ford is SOLD OUT, so don't wait to get your tickets to La Traviata on October 27 and 28, 2018 and La boheme in December!

Host Andreas Kraemer visits a rehearsal of Carmen at the Ebell Club to talk to Nora Graham-Smith, Dane Suarez, Babatunde Akinboboye, William Grundler, and Joel Balzun about mezzo-sopranos, smuggling, orientalism, and relationships with coworkers.

Andreas sits down with Katherine Powers, the original Musetta from Hipster Boheme and Frasquita in Carmen, to discuss POP history, Carmen in the context of #metoo, tenors, and music education. Carmen at the Ford is SOLD OUT! Get your tickets for La traviata at Occidental and La boheme in Highland Park NOW!

Andreas sits down with Josh Shaw, Aubrey Scarr, and Michael Powers to discuss fighting, Spanish music, female empowerment, complex relationships, all things Carmen! Very few seats left for Carmen, but every seat at the Ford is a good seat! Buy your tickets for the September 1 show now!

Andreas sits down with Kyle Patterson and Armando Contreras to talk about the POP family, new opera, voice types, slapstick comedy, and the process of putting together La gazzetta. Tickets are sold out, but check POP's Facebook page for a live video stream hosted by our own Andreas Kraemer on closing night, Saturday 7/7/2018 at 8pm!

Host Andreas Kraemer visits a rehearsal of La gazzetta at the Ebell Club to talk to Rachel Policar, Mollie Clementz, Jessie Shulman, Scott Ziemann, and Phil Meyer about voice types, pants, and dream opera roles.

Host Andreas Kraemer sits down for a discussion with coloratura soprano, composer, and conductor Brooke deRosa about POP's upcoming production of Rossini's rediscovered masterpiece La gazzetta, singing agility, women in music, composing new work, and opera in Los Angeles. Visit pacificoperaproject.com for La gazzetta tickets! June 28, 29, 30 July 6 and 7 at 8pm Highland Park Ebell Club 131 S. Ave. 57 Los Angeles 90042 Sung in Italian with projected English titles and orchestra. Table seating available. Only the second staging ever in the US.

Host Andreas Kraemer sits down with low voices E. Scott Levin, Luvi Avendano, and Andrew Potter to discuss Don Giovanni, POP shows past and present, low voices in Opera, Mozart, acting, and the artistic lifestyle. Visit pacificoperaproject.com for Don Giovanni tickets! Evening of April 20,21 Matinee April 22, 2018

Host Andreas Kraemer visits the Don Giovanni set at the Vortex for a rehearsal and promo film session. Interviews with Adrian Rosas, Daria Somers, Saira Frank, Ryan Murray, Robert Norman, and Tiffany Ho.

Andreas and Artistic Director Josh Shaw discuss POP's 2018 Season opener, Don Giovanni, and what to expect at The Vortex, a venue new to POP. Visit pacificoperaproject.com for Don Giovanni tickets! Evening of April 13,14,20,21 Matinee April 22, 2018

Andreas Kraemer sits down with Josh Shaw to discuss POP, the 2018 season, cultural influences, POPaganza, and men's fashion.