Category: Podcast
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Podcast Episode 3: Marriage of Figaro + Seduction’s Servant Pt 1
Maren begins a new story, Seduction’s Servant, which was written during a production of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. She discusses the impact that opera had on her childhood, and the political activism underlying the Beaumarchais play that the opera was based on. Follow Maren on Instagram: @supermaren Facebook: https://facebook.com/maren.montalbano Purchase Maren’s debut book, Pandemic Passion:…
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Podcast Episode 2: Otello + Venetian Vixen Part 2
Maren tells the conclusion of Venetian Vixen and spends some time talking about Verdi’s Otello, as well as the history of blackface in opera and the work that still needs to be done to overcome racism in opera. News articles about Otello and blackface: The New York Times (2015): An ‘Otello’ Without Blackface Highlights an…
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Podcast Episode 1: Otello + Venetian Vixen Part 1
Maren explains how she got into writing mini-romance novels, and talks about her first time (writing romance, that is). It was backstage at the opera, during a production of Verdi’s Otello, when her first romance, Venetian Vixen, was born. Maren reads the first few titillating chapters of this short story, and talks about her one-woman…