“Among the distinguished Camp alumni are opera and concert soprano Jessye Norman, ‘Roseanne’ star Sara Gilbert, actor Tom Hulce, ‘Cathy’ creator Cathy Guisewite, vocalist Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary, and CBS News Correspondent Mike Wallace.”
(Well, actually that paragraph is from a news article about Interlochen, but it certainly sounds like it belongs in The Essay.)
From a documentary about the legendary Yma Sumac.
La Cieca has decided to do as the (other) young people are doing and so she has joined MySpace. Won’t you visit her there?
Years ago, Diva Past (whose career, by that point, was really done) canceled a prima donna gig at a major American opera house. Diva Present won overnight stardom when she substituted. Now, years later, Diva Present has booked a return to both venue and role of her triumph. At the moment, though, her schedule is extremely nip and tuck. And so the doubting opera company is about to send on … Diva Future. It’s the circle … the circle …. of divas!
La Cieca has just completed the pilot for her very own (online) video series, playing Veejay in her own idiosyncratic way. Admittedly she is no Caskader, but she thinks you will agree that her presenting style is very animated. As always, La Cieca craves your comments and suggestions.
But no matter how “gaia” La Cieca became, she would never be “piu fulgida” than this.
In her never-ceasing quest for greater convenience and maximum gadget-intensivity, La Cieca has updated the user interface for her podcasts. Now she can insert one podcast directly into the homepage like so . . . powered by ODEO All you need do is click on the “play” button and crank up your speakers. (This is the most recent podcast, by the way, the third act of Mercadante’s Il Bravo, which includes a few bits of news plus a return of the wildly popular quiz “The Enigmas of La Cieca.”) The most recent dozen or so podcasts can be accessed, as [...]
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