Radio Betty covered The Merry Widow, Turandot, Carmen and Madama Butterfly this month. It was richly informative and sure to enrage listeners who know anything at all about opera.

Here’s the playlist:

• Nessun Dorma - Three Redneck Tenors
• Merry Widow Waltz - Kings of Dixieland
• Meet Me at Maxims - Lisette Verea
• Non piangere, Liu - Sutherland, Pavarotti, Caballe etc + Mehta / London Philharmonic
• Best of Carmen
• Habanera - Angela Gheorghiu
• The Violin - Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (Featuring Brian Dewan & Eileen Ivers)
• I Make the Dough, You Get the Glory - Kathleen Edwards
• Hockey Monkey - James Kochalka Superstar
• Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti, Tom Krause, Pier Francesco Poli, Piero de Palma; Zubin Mehta, London Philharmonic Orchestra, John Alldis Choir

We also talked about Gloves Off! A Hockey Opera in Three Acts and invited everyone we know to a fundraiser that includes bustiers and bon bons  (no lie). The invitation reads “give yourself over to absolute pleasure” which is obviously from the Rocky Horror Picture Show so I’m attending dressed as Columbia.

Radio Betty was produced by a fleet of trained mice, at the direction of the geniuses at Sonic Trout. Blame them.

Radio Betty airs on www.womr.org on the second Sunday of every month until they change the locks to the studio. Listen online from 12-1pm or forever hold your peace because they are totally not rebroadcasting this crap.

Well no one got fired for our pilot radio program, or our post pilot radio program, so we’re going to keep trying until heads roll. Radio Betty is officially in the 12pm slot, second Sunday of the month. Which is coming right up.

(breathes into paper bag)

You can listen to it online at womr.org.

Between the radio show and the facebook page (join the facebook page, yo), lots of weird, quasi-opera-related stuff has shown up. Stuff like Gloves Off! A Hockey Opera in Three Acts.

I do not make this stuff up.

I have notes in sharpie marker all down my arm because people keep asking if I’ve heard about this or that and NO, I HAVEN’T.

But I have heard of this.

Mullets. Opera. Hockey. We are all one.