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Working: Behind the Scenes at the Opera With Jamie Barton

Slate Culture

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Arts, Tv & Film, Music

4.42K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, June Thomas talks with opera singer Jamie Barton. Barton is a critically acclaimed American mezzosoprano who performs at major opera houses all around the world and maintains an active social media presence that serves as a hub for conversations about body positivity, diet culture, social justice issues, and LGBTQ rights, You can hear her on Studio 360 and watch her on YouTube. They talk about what it really means to travel as an opera singer. Barton explains the challenges of being responsible for providing your own tools for the work you do, and how she’s collaborating online with other artists during the current pandemic. Afterward, June and Isaac Butler discuss what they found most surprising about the interview and answer their very first listener question, about working with an editor. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to [email protected]. Podcast production by Morgan Flannery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up guys? I am Ashley Gavin and I am your father. I'm Elena Joy. I am mommy and I'm

0:05.6

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0:10.8

family because you don't have a gay family and you need a gay family.

0:14.4

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0:18.8

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0:24.5

full episodes on YouTube to get the full family experience. Chosen Family is a part of

0:29.0

the Forever Dog Podcast Network.

0:37.0

Welcome back to Working. I'm your host Isaac Butler.

0:39.0

And I'm your other host, June Thomas.

0:41.0

June, how is your work going this week?

0:44.0

I have to admit, it's been kind of an emotional week.

0:47.0

We just recorded the, I don't say, the final episode of the waves, but the last episode before we go on a hiatus that was caused by

0:56.5

so of COVID related cost cutting and I just I mean I love the show I've done it a long time I love working at my thoughts and

1:05.5

ideas with Christina Nicole and Marsha who've been my co-host for the last year or so and

1:12.4

most of although I'm realizing I'll kind of

1:14.4

miss that bi-weekly rhythm. I think that rhythm is an underrated factor in

1:19.3

creative expression. If you have to write a column every Friday, eventually you get into just this thing where you have ideas on Tuesday and you flesh them out on Wednesday and you get into it with your editor on Thursday and I think the more you can create rhythms like that, I think it can be really

1:36.9

productive. Do you have stuff like that? Yeah, I mean, I feel like we're starting to do that with this show.

1:42.3

You know, when is an interview being recorded? When are we doing, you know, this stuff before the episodes? And it really does start to shape your mental process of what the week looks like.

1:54.3

So absolutely.

1:55.3

I try to be a little less regimented about creative writing,

2:00.8

just because I don't want to feel like

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