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  • mia apulia: I am surprised at how moving this is, all the more sad… 6:25 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: Helen starts at 1.40. httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=K-oU i7YzZ-Y 5:40 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: youtube is being difficult httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=-tZO uRRgde4 5:31 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: A light interlude with one of the most fabulous Brünhildes that ever graced an opera stage. Helen... 5:29 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: kashania, I just listened to the Walküre of the eve of Pearl Harbor, the Varnay debut. Bad things... 5:18 PM
  • m. croche: For the record, the Lortzing Wildschuetz from the Wiener Volksoper was a good deal of fun from start to... 4:24 PM
  • RosinaLeckermaul: Our local station is playing the Chicago WERTHER with Polenzani and Koch. Very good performance.... 3:30 PM
  • Satisfied: A bit of an aside, but the exquisite Audra McDonald performing at Avery is being presented on PBS this... 2:11 PM

Qui la chat sua soave

La Cieca is away, but the regular Saturday chat goes on uninterrupted: this week with archival podcasts of I puritani from 1972 starring Luciano Pavarotti and birthday girl Beverly Sills.

Self-conquest

Likely more than 30,000 people attended the ten-performance run of the Met’s recent Giulio Cesare (with many thousands more viewing its April 27 HD-transmission). Probably no more than 100 gathered Tuesday in a curtained-off space in the lobby of NYC’s Gershwin Hotel to witness the North American premiere of Rodrigo by operamission. But much of this wildly uneven version of Handel’s second opera felt more deeply genuine than the Met’s more polished, yet vapid “show biz” effort. Read more »

Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Richard Wagner!

That most profound and controversial of all operatic composers was born 200 years ago today. Read more »

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Man in chair

The question on everyone’s lips at Carnegie Hall was, “Is Jimmy back in form?”

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And the 2013 Pubies go to…

One startling upset catches the eye among the many winners (if that is the word) of the 2013 Parterre Box Awards.

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Lady for a décolleté

La Cieca invites the cher public to open up and discuss any off-topic or general interests they might want to get off their chest.

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Zurück vom “Ring!”

Peter Gelb says the Ring will definitely not return, as originally planned, in 2017, and where has La Cieca heard that before?

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Encore! Encore!

For tomorrow afternoon’s chat at La Casa della Cieca, your doyenne offers an unusual double blast from the past.

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