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Gently down the stream

by | 2:10 pm | Oct 24, 2006

Beginning tomorrow night with the season premiere of Rigoletto, the Met will offer weekly free (yes, that’s right, free) streaming broadcasts of opera performances over their website, metopera.org. Further broadcasts through the end of the year will include:

  • Rigoletto (Siurina, Calleja, Pons) Wednesday October 25

  • Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (Guleghina, Racette, Licitra) Monday, October 30
  • Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Damrau, Flórez, Mattei) Friday November 10
  • Madama Butterfly (Gallardo-Domâs, Giordani, Croft; Levine) Saturday, November 18
  • Tosca (Millo, Fraccaro, Morris) Saturday, November 25
  • Idomeneo (Röschmann, Deshorties, Kožená, van Rensburg; Levine) Wednesday, November 29
  • La Boheme (Netrebko, Villazón) Tuesday, December 5
  • Don Carlo (Racette, Borodina, Botha, Hvorostovsky, Pape, Ramey; Levine) Monday, December 11 (7:00 PM/EST)
  • The First Emperor (Futral, DeYoung, Domingo, Groves; Tan Dun — world premiere) Thursday, December 21
  • I Puritani (Netrebko, Cutler) Wednesday, December 27

These broadcasts will be streamed with “support from RealNetworks®, the leading creator of digital media services.” In honor of this innovation, La Cieca will host one of her legendary live chats tomorrow night during the Rigoletto streaming broadcast. Check back on parterre.com Wednesday afternoon for a link to the chat page.

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The one that got away

by | 8:03 pm | Oct 23, 2006

Anna Caterina Antonacci is not, in fact, coming to the Met. Admittedly her scheduled debut was Donna Elvira and nothing definite after that, but still, she’s an interesting artist who isn’t heard enough in the U.S., and a few Elviras is better than no Antonacci at all. Apparently Antonacci was bumped in favor of Angela Gheorghiu, an artist whose participation in an ensemble opera La Cieca will believe when she sees it. La Antonacci talks about this imbroglio and other more elevating topics in an interview with Rupert Christiansen.

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Half and half

by | 12:06 pm | Oct 23, 2006

Andy‘s take on the Tommasini “lamentation” — The Opera House is Half Full.

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BREAKING: Opera Enjoyed by All

by | 10:07 am | Oct 23, 2006

The NYT’s ace scribe Bernard “Scoop” Holland breathlessly spills his latest discoveries about that newfangled entertainment called “opera” today. Didja know, for example, that a lot of opera is long and boring, but there’s this one opera called Cavalleria rusticana that’s not as long as most (” it’s the only opera I know that may be too short”)? Cav, which Mr. Holland types “acts like a single, sweeping transitive verb,” has a lot in common with Pagliacci, if you overlook that elusive transitive quality. “Both pieces,” Holland confides, “concern triangular adultery. . . . Both leave behind a sufficient number [...]

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Sono vecchia diggià!

by | 1:23 pm | Oct 22, 2006

From today’s NYT “Dearth of Divas” — Leontyne turns time-traveler.

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Vers des îles de fleurs

by | 1:52 am | Oct 22, 2006

Tatiana Troyanos and James Levine perform “Asie” from “Shéhérazade” (Ravel/Klingsor).

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How like a turtle the sun looks

by | 2:13 pm | Oct 21, 2006

Our story this far: 17 October 2006: La Cieca reports (erroneously) that Andrea Gruber is about to be “bought out” of a Met revival of La fanciulla del West. 20 October 2006: La Cieca discovers that the Fanciulla isn’t happening; Gruber and Salvatore Licitra possibly to be cast in the replacement opera? 21 October 2006: Then again, eh, probably not, since those two don’t really have roles in the opera that (La Cieca hears) will be performed at the Met next season. Following in the footsteps of South Park Elementary, the Metropolitan will present a “happy, non-offensive, non-denominational” opera, “with [...]

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Ugh!

by | 12:15 am | Oct 21, 2006

Pronounced “oog,” as in Wowkle, that is. You may recall that La Cieca said something a few days ago about a rumored departure of soprano Andrea Gruber from a Met revival of La fanciulla del West scheduled for next season. Well, further information has filtered in that suggests a different story. You might say, in fact, that the Fanciulla has departed from Gruber. Latest word is that the revival of the Puccini western has been canceled, leaving both the soprano and her putative Dick (Salvatore Licitra) with some time on their hands midseason. Or will the Met recast the pair [...]

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