by Kristi | Oct 1, 2021
Podcast forthcoming. Will announce when posted. This Da Camera Society-produced podcast explores the life and music Ethel Smyth, a composer, feminist activist and writer whose massive oratorio The Prison won the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.... 
by Kristi | Oct 1, 2021
Exploring Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutti This episode of San Francisco Opera’s podcast North Stage Door takes listeners backstage to examine the dynamic 18th century duo of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, and what, and how, their creative... 
by Kristi | Oct 1, 2021
In this Behind the Curtain conversation, musicologist Dr. Kristi Brown Montesano and Dr. Arianne Helou, a dramaturg and French studies scholar, discuss “Oedipus Rex,” composed by Igor Stravinsky to a libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the ancient Greek...