218: Vache Baroque's Betty Makharinsky

Vache Baroque didn’t start with a five-year plan. It started with a can-do attitude. In 2020, soprano-producer Betty Makharinsky and conductor Jonathan Darbourne looked at a locked-down industry and staged Purcell's Dido and Aeneas outdoors—in eleven weeks. Since then they’ve built a distinctive live experience: bold repertoire choices, playful staging, circus performers, and sound design subtle enough that you barely notice it but absolutely benefit from. In this episode, Betty charts that journey—from scratch startup to trusted aesthetic—and why serving the audience sometimes means re-thinking tradition. Bear in mind this podcast does battle with some automated announcements from the Southbank Centre.

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218: Vache Baroque's Betty Makharinsky is an episode from Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast by Thoroughly Good Classical Music Podcast.

This episode is 00:37:04 long.

This episode was published on Oct 23, 2025.

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