Texapolitan Opera Roadshow
By Michael Mayes
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Podcast Description
Mostly True Stories from Real Opera Professionals~ without the pipe and bowtie... Raised in the Piney Woods of East Texas, metropolinated by my career choice, my mission is to pull back the curtain, remove the velvet ropes, and give the public at large an insight into the lives of the real people behind opera in the United States and abroad. You won’t hear about fin-de-siecle Paris and the anti-imperialist overtones exhibited in compositions during that time, Bach’s 12th son’s dog’s name, or Alban Berg’s distaste for liver… we’re just going to talk to each other, like we do. Once a week, I’ll invite you to sit down with me and one of my friends as we tell the stories that we tell each other across drinks every time we get the pleasure of working together. We welcome you to sit back, relax, pop a top or two, and get to know the people behind the curtain. Questions, Comments? mazerthehazer@gmail.com
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ExplicitEp. 32~ Maestro Andrew Bisantz~ TWSS!!! | Hello and welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow! A happy new year to you all as we jump back into the podastiverse and get ready for a whole new year of exciting guests in 2012, provided we escape the mayan apocalypse… To kick off the new [.. | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 31~ Michael Rice of OperaNow!~ CROSSING THE STREAMS | If you’re an fan of the greater Opera Podcast Community, you know that theme song doesn’t belong to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow~ that’s right, we’ve crossed the streams again~ I’m Michael Mayes, your host, here with[...] | 12/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 30~ Todd Thomas, A B12 shot to your Corpus Operaticus | Hello and welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow. I’d like to send a special Mighty fine Mighty fine and a great big howdy out to the new listeners tuning into to the show from all over the world via operamusicbroadcast.com, welcome t[...] | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp 29~ John Hoomes, KEEP OPERA WEIRD | Hello and welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow, coming to you from the land of country music, big hair, wild women~ in other words, my own personal heaven~ Nashville Tennessee. In between taking in amazing sets at The Station Inn, Layla[...] | 12/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 28~ David Roth, Operatic Evangelist | Hello and welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow. I’m your host, Michael Mayes, and this week’s episode comes to you straight outta Louisville Kentucky. David Roth is the General Director of Kentucky Opera, but personally, I[...] | 11/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp 27~ Maestro Jerome Shannon | Hello and welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow. I am Michael Mayes, your host, here to give you your weekly dose of Texapollination. This week, the show comes to you from Shreveport Louisiana, where I was singing Danilo in The Merry Widow[...] | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 26~ Mo. Michael Borowitz~ SUPER CONDUCTOR!!! | Welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow~ I am your host, Michael Mayes here to bring you your weekly dose of dysfunctional operatic unconventionality . This week’s guest is another one of those folks in the business with whom it[...] | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp 25~ John Moore and Taylor Stayton Pt. 2 | Hello and welcome back to the TORS, I’m your host Mike Mayes, and before we get started I want to just take a minute to thank some fans out there who’ve written in to show their support for the TORS. Sometimes it can feel a bit like scr[...] | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp 24~ John “The Shaman” Moore with special guest Taylor Stayton | Hello and welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow. If you’re a regular listener to the show, you know that for the past month or show I’ve been off the air. Unfortunately the display on my trusty dusty 6 year old MacBook pro fin[...] | 9/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp 23~ MR BARIHUNKS – the mystery man behind the Barihunks Blog | Hello and welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow~ I’m Michael Mayes your host, and I am here to tell you that this week, we’re taking a little detour. Normally my guests consist of Singers, Directors, Conductors and the like, bu[...] | 8/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 22~ Marjorie Owens and The Mighty Quinn Kelsey | Hello and welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow! This week we’re taking a break from the Des Moines Metro Opera crowd, but don’t worry~ they’ll be back later this month with John Michael Moore, Mo. Michael Borowitz, and my[...] | 8/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 21, Chad Johnson at the Hamilton House of the Rising Sun | Whoa. WHOA. I am Michael Mayes, your host, and I just put in some serious time editing our podcast for this week, and my stomach just hurts. I love doing this show, and most of the time the best part of it is going back and listening to the epis[. | 7/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 20~ William Farlow, The White Tornado | Well here we are again, back on the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow. I’m your host, Michael Mayes, and I am back this week with another DMMO favorite, Director William Farlow. Bill has had a long and illustrious career all across this fruited p[...] | 7/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 19~ Brenda Harris | Welcome back to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow, I am Michael Mayes, coming at you loud proud from Indianola Iowa at Des Moines Metro Opera. I was able to sit down with DMMO favorite, and beloved opera icon, Brenda Harris this week, and we had a deli[...] | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 18~ Kristine McIntyre | Whoa… so, best laid plans and all. I had fully intended to put out a large string of episodes over the past couple of weeks, but I was frustrated by the incredible group of singers here in Des Moines at DMMO~ we’ve been having so much fun on [...] | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 17~ John De Los Santos | This week we have another guest rom Fort Worth Opera’s impressive roster of talent, John De Los Santos, Director/Dancer/Choreographer and Actor, hell I don’t know the guy just does everything… Fair warning: This one ain’t for you[...] | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 16~ David Gately | You might have noticed that its been a while since I’ve posted an episode~ well, after a really hectic year of almost nonstop travel, I took some time away from the Opera world to reconnect with some family, spend some time with my lady, and d[...] | 5/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 15 ~ Maestro Stephen Lord, PART TWO!! | This weeks episode is part two of my interview with Maestro Stephen Lord. Last week, we got some great artistic and philisophical insights into what drives Maestro Lord, this week, we get a little more of the same, and some great stories about his [...] | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 14 ~ Maestro Stephen Lord, Part 1~ Living the Dream | I consider Michigan Opera Theater to be one of my opera homes. Dr. David DiChiera has given me so many wonderful opportunities~ first as a Resident Artist, then, when I had flown my YAP nest and moved on to a full blown professional career, as Ping[...] | 4/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 13 ~ Darren K. Woods, the Prince of Fort Worth | DKW, as he is affectionately known throughout the opera world, is one of the most innovative and exciting people in the opera business today. When others abandoned ship, Darren buckled down and stayed true to his mission at Fort Worth Opera, and hi[...] | 3/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 12 ~ Robert Boldin with special guest Slim Spadermann | The Texapolitan Opera Roadshow makes a return visit to the Metronome Coffee Shop in Tacoma, WA with one of our surpise guests from last week, Robert Boldin, and special secret guest Slim Spadermann. Rob and I go way back to our time in Chicago wher[...] | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 11 ~ Benjamin Wayne Smith | Benjamin Wayne Smith and I go back to the CCM days. After all these years we’ve finally been given the chance to work together on a Pag/Trouble in Tahiti double bill in Tacoma, and we’re loving every minute of it. I’ve never met [...] | 3/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp.8~ Mary Dunleavy~ Classin’ up the joint | Well, it had to happen sooner or later. During Opera Birimingham’s production of Faust, I was able to sit down with Mary Dunleavy and add a little bit of class to the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow… some of the episodes have been a bit blue[...] | 1/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEp. 7~Millinee Bannister & Kirk Eichelberger, Sensualist | This week’s abbreviated podcast is short, but packed with some really good stories from Kirk Eichelberger, Bass and Millinee Bannister, Mezzo~ both of whom are involved in Opera Birmingham’s production of Faust [click here for more infor[...] | 1/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | ExplicitVideoThe Dark Side of Brendan Cooke and Baltimore Concert Opera | I began this blog, and this particular interview, as a way of focusing on interesting people promoting opera in revolutionary ways while surviving in a national climate that has become increasingly hostile toward the arts. In this case, inquiring as[...] | 1/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEpisode 5: Eugenian Bohemians | The last stop on my cross country operatic extravaganza took me to Eugene, Oregon to sing Marcello in La Boheme with Eugene opera. I was able to work with some really fascinating and entertaining people, whom I had hoped to document in great detail [...] | 1/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTORS Ep 4, Emily Pulley | While singing in La Boheme at Eugene Opera I had to privilege of working with the beloved Emily Pulley. Emily is one of the sweetest women I’ve ever met and is a perfect example of everything that is good about this business. Join us as we d[...] | 1/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTORS Ep. 3, David Adam Moore | [CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE TEXAPOLITAN OPERA ROADSHOW ON ITUNES!] I was able to sit down and chat with DAM, as my tour of treble named baritones continues. David and I were double cast as Guglielmo in Arizona Opera’s production of Cosi f[...] | 12/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTORS Ep. 2, Michael Todd Simpson | The long awaited interview with MTS is now on iTunes (click here to jump to the page)~ the guys over at Barihunks leaked the newly coined term, “The Full Okulitch” this week… subscribe and download the full episode to hear if MTS w[...] | 12/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | ExplicitVideoLouisville Alarm Clock (VIDEO) | Texapolitan Opera Roadshow | 11/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | ExplicitVideoSondra Nottingham’s Magic Fingers | Texapolitan Opera Roadshow | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTORS Ep.1~ Dean Anthony | The debut episode of the Texapolitan Opera Roadshow with guest, Dean Anthony. Despite some technical difficulties, which almost caused the tragic disappearance of some high quality anecdotes, we were able to salvage Dean’s track with some ble[...] | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
The Mazer does it again....
Michael Mayes is a new breed of opera singer...one who realizes that it it is up to him to help save this dying art form. By highlighting some of the truly terrific characters (offstage) in this business, Texapolitan Opera helps break down some of the preconceived notions about opera singers. Mike is a regular guy, with a wicked sense of humor, a keen eye for the fun and bizarre, and by the way...a pretty formidable talent on the opera stage. Do yourself a favor, and make time to listen!
Mayes does a wonderful job
Michael has created a great, fun and informal way to experience the artists in the fairly formal way of opera. The format feels like a voyeur catching a personal chat between friends that really humanizes and gives a well rounded experience of budding and well established opry sangers. The humor is wonderful and endearing. Bravo sir, play on!
happy I found this
ok....um this rocks!!!
love that you are making the operatic world more accesible...love hearing all the crap stripped away from the hoity-toity. it may not be artsy-fartsy, but there's lots a fart in this art.
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