Opera: Boston Symphony Orchestra
Divine Competition: Thriving as a World-Class Soprano
Opera may sound like divine expression, but behind the curtain lies a fiercely competitive world where only the most adaptive survive. In this episode, Meredith Hansen — celebrated soprano and international performer — takes us inside the high-stakes universe of symphonic performance.
We explore what it takes to thrive at the top in a field flooded with elite global talent: the discipline of vocal survival, the politics of casting, the tension between tradition and innovation, and how true differentiation happens when the same arias have been sung for centuries.
This is a masterclass in performance, resilience, and the strategic evolution required to stay relevant in one of the most tradition-bound art forms on Earth.
