The Atlas Obscura Podcast · Friday, September 25, 2026
A caller from Baltimore shared her experience of having opera singers as neighbors in apartment buildings in both Chicago and New York. She described the unique experience of hearing professional arias sung daily, comparing it to the calls to prayer she heard while living abroad.
“And twice now, I have had neighbors in my apartment buildings in both Chicago and New York, who are opera singers.”
“So to have, you know, on random parts of the day, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, and hear beautiful arias being sung. It was pretty special.”
“So I've been lucky over the years to really just have musicality in my neighbors.”