{"id":16910,"date":"2025-03-30T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/?p=16910"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T09:14:43","slug":"episode-346-olive-middleton-and-la-puma-alternate-universe-bel-canto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/episode-346-olive-middleton-and-la-puma-alternate-universe-bel-canto\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 346. Olive Middleton and La Puma (Alternate Universe Bel Canto)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mega-menu-wrap-primary\" class=\"mega-menu-wrap\"><div class=\"mega-menu-toggle\"><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-left\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-center\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-right\"><div class='mega-toggle-block mega-menu-toggle-animated-block mega-toggle-block-1' id='mega-toggle-block-1'><button aria-label=\"Menu\" class=\"mega-toggle-animated mega-toggle-animated-slider\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"mega-menu-primary\">\n                  <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-box\">\n                    <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-inner\"><\/span>\n                  <\/span>\n                <\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><ul id=\"mega-menu-primary\" class=\"mega-menu max-mega-menu mega-menu-horizontal mega-no-js\" data-event=\"hover_intent\" data-effect=\"slide\" data-effect-speed=\"200\" data-effect-mobile=\"slide\" data-effect-speed-mobile=\"200\" data-mobile-force-width=\"body\" data-second-click=\"go\" data-document-click=\"collapse\" data-vertical-behaviour=\"standard\" data-breakpoint=\"600\" data-unbind=\"true\" data-mobile-state=\"collapse_all\" data-mobile-direction=\"vertical\" data-hover-intent-timeout=\"300\" data-hover-intent-interval=\"100\"><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-menu-item-home mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19160\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19160\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19161\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19161\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/about-daniel\/\">About Daniel<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-current_page_parent mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19171\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19171\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/all-episodes\/\">All Episodes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 346. Olive Middleton and La Puma (Alternate Universe Bel Canto)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/?powerpress_embed=1485-podcast&amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>SOCIAL SHARE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-7e5fce0a wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/\">SUBSCRIBE VIA YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST PLATFORM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Album-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Album-Cover.jpg 900w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Album-Cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Album-Cover-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Album-Cover-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello, Campers! Once again it is April Fool\u2019s Day, which means that here at <em>Countermelody<\/em>, we\u2019re doing another in my \u201cAlternate Universe Bel Canto\u201d series. This year the featured diva is Olive Middleton, still remembered by a certain kind of opera lover who adores fearless singers who throw caution, technique, and discretion to the winds. In the case of Middleton, she became, late in life, the lead soprano of the La Puma Opera Company (officially titled the La Puma Opera Workshop), where she fearlessly undertook the most challenging soprano roles of the operatic repertoire. Today, as last year, I am joined by my friend the redoubtable Thomas Bagwell, whose love of bad taste and cringe-worthy artistic expression surpasses even mine. We have a rollicking conversation about Middleton, interspersed with choice live selections from La Puma in the 1960s. Along the way, we discuss the \u201cso bad it\u2019s good\u201d phenomenon and its manifestations in film, on stage, and on the printed page, including an abominably bad poem about Olive that Thomas specifically for this episode. In the end, we arrive at many conclusions, first and foremost that singers like Middleton were motivated, in the words of John Ardoin, \u201ca love for singing, a love for music, a love for her audience. She disperses this primary element in unstinting fashion, sharing with her public a devotion to and pursuit of art that is surely without parallel.\u201d If you have not yet experienced the force of nature (and mind over matter) that <em>is <\/em>Olive Middleton, you are in for a listening experience like none you have ever had!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thomas-974x1536-1-649x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thomas-974x1536-1-649x1024.jpg 649w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thomas-974x1536-1-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thomas-974x1536-1-768x1211.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Thomas-974x1536-1.jpg 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Thomas Bagwell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-size\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong> RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"829\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Younger-Glam.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Younger-Glam.png 1008w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Younger-Glam-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Younger-Glam-768x632.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>All selections feature Olive Middleton, with (unless otherwise noted), members of the La Puma Opera Company (more properly known as the La Puma Opera Workshop)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dear-Olive.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dear-Olive.png 692w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Dear-Olive-239x300.png 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Vincenzo Bellini: Troppo il felon presume (<em>Norma<\/em>). Mario Leone, conductor; Bill Yearwood, piano [live 22.VII.65]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Adriana.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Adriana.png 468w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Adriana-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Olive as Adriana<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Francesco Cilea: Io son l\u2019umile ancella (<em>Adriana Lecouvreur<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"808\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alberta-Masiello.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alberta-Masiello.png 602w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Alberta-Masiello-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alberta Masiello, daughter of Josephine La Puma, founder of the eponymous Opera Workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Amilcare Ponchielli: Suicidio! (<em>La Gioconda<\/em>). Olive Middleton, La Puma Opera Company<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"992\" height=\"933\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Middleton-LP-photo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Middleton-LP-photo.png 992w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Middleton-LP-photo-300x282.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Middleton-LP-photo-768x722.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Giuseppe Verdi: Ecco l\u2019orrido campo&#8230; Ma dall\u2019arido stelo divulsa (<em>Un ballo in maschera<\/em>). Olive Middleton, unknown pianist [possibly Alfred Middleton] [demo, mid-1940s or early 1950s]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"351\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Fedora.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Fedora.png 351w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Fedora-158x300.png 158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Olive as Fedora<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Giuseppe Verdi: Miserere (<em>Il Trovatore<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Actual-La-Puma-Performance-1024x716.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Actual-La-Puma-Performance-1024x716.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Actual-La-Puma-Performance-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Actual-La-Puma-Performance-768x537.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Actual-La-Puma-Performance.png 1359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Grainy screenshot of an actual performance of <em>Aida<\/em> by the La Puma Opera Workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Pietro Mascagni: Ineggiamo il Signor non \u00e8 morto (<em>Cavalleria rusticana<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"869\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Post-Show.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Post-Show.png 617w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Post-Show-213x300.png 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Richard Wagner: O hehrstes Wunder! (<em>Die Walk\u00fcre<\/em>) [live 1965]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"324\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Tosca.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Tosca.png 324w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Tosca-179x300.png 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Olive as Tosca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Giacomo Puccini: Vissi d\u2019arte (<em>Tosca<\/em>) [live 1968]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"407\" height=\"802\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Norma.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Norma.png 407w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Norma-152x300.png 152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Olive as Norma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Vincenzo Bellini: In mia man alfin tu sei&#8230; Gi\u00e0 mi pasco ne\u2019 tuoi sguardi (<em>Norma<\/em>). Danilo di Pena, Pollione; Mario Leone, conductor; Bill Yearwood, piano [live 22.VII.65]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"626\" height=\"856\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Townend.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Townend.png 626w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-Townend-219x300.png 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Francesco Cilea: Giusto ciel! (<em>Adriana Lecouvreur<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-and-Alfred-Gravestone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17233\" style=\"width:543px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-and-Alfred-Gravestone.jpg 250w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Olive-and-Alfred-Gravestone-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Viva la morte insiem!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Umberto Giordano: Vicino a te (<em>Andrea Ch\u00e9nier<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 346. 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