Opera Chic had the pleasure of raging with Matt Poland of Splice Today (a motley crew of Baltimore-Oriole-loving, Edgar-Allan-Poe-grave-site-visiting online journalists who offer a stimulating alternative to the ennui of current web-based talking heads) shucking & jiving about the state of opera in "The Noughties", his Royal Highness HWH, Graham Vick, Luc Bondy, and all the creamy goodness in between that makes opera so ~fabulous~.
As Signor Poland teases about O.C.: 'One of the cutting-edge voices of opera commentary raps about the Baltimore opera scene, the 'appalling abuse of [a] cimbasso' and gateway drugs."