For Two Mezzo-Sopranos, Two Sopranos, Tenor, Baritone, and Bass-Baritone

LIBRETTO BY JASON CADY. Part of "Aqua Net & Funyuns," a podcast of five different operas connected by dozens of hidden Easter Eggs. Each episode highlights the cliff-hanger nature of serial narratives by alternating between all five operas in “round-robin” style. The serial episodes tell compelling stories with vocals, instruments and immersive sound design. In The Understudy, an opera company hires a private eye to go undercover as an understudy to a soprano.

Press

“Kamala Sankaram’s “The Understudy”… hook[s] listeners with [its] punchy music and cheeky cliffhangers.”

-Oussama Zahr, The New Yorker

Past Productions

Experiments in Opera on Apple Podcasts, Spotify

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