[@ 5 min] Harry Bicket, music director of Santa Fe Opera, takes a \u2018Free Throw\u2019 on being pigeonholed as an Early Music specialist. This summer, Maestro Bicket conducts "Don Giovanni"; we ask him to weigh in on his favorite act of a Mozart opera\u2026\n\n[@ 19 min] In 'Chalk Talk'... It\u2019s all very well for us to bust a bracket finding the Best School of Music voice program. But what are those departments actually teaching, and how does that relate to what a modern freelance performer actually needs to know\u2026?\n\n[@ 39 min] It\u2019s a bonus \u2018Free Throw\u2019 from tenor Jonathan Tetelman, making a double debut at the Met, starting this Saturday in "La Rondine"\u2026\n\n[@ 49 min] In the \u2018Two Minute Drill\u2019\u2026 major awards, a scandal (or not) at the NY Phil, budget cuts in Paris, and all hail the Tempo Police...\n\nGET YOUR VOICE HEARD\noperaboxscore.com\nfacebook.com/obschi1\n@operaboxscore\nIG operaboxscore