Oliver plays \u2018Monday Evening Quarterback\u2019 on Orlando di Lasso\u2019s \u201cLagrime di San Pietro\u201d seen at Ravinia last week... the OperaWire website reports that soprano Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs was recently fired from Maryland Lyric Opera\u2019s concert performances of Puccini\u2019s \u201cLa Fanciulla del West\u201d for standing up to abuse from the company\u2019s music director. Our team tries to figure out what happened... In the \u2018Two Minute Drill\u2019, Kim Witman at Wolf Trap Opera Company has released her annual stats on what arias are sung first in auditions and WQXR writer Fred Plotkin has given out his biennial list of forty opera singers under forty that are worth looking out for. We\u2019ll go through the lists...\n\nwww.facebook.com/OBSCHI1/