June 2007
Expanding the already bulging operatic repertoire, The Pocket Opera Players have announced the the world premiere of Pumped Fiction, composed by John Eaton with libretto by his daughter Estela Eaton. Pumped Fiction is a fable about the world’s leading patentee-distributor of penis pumps. The one-off performance will be Wednesday, June 20 at 8:00PM at Symphony…
“Mr. Hvorostovsky looked sexy in black leather pants and an open-collared black shirt.” Final paragraph.
A belated happy birthday to Shirley Verrett, who so far as La Cieca knows never appeared in such operatic rarities as Gianni Chitarra, La femmina sulla spiaggia or even Che fine ha fatto Baby Jane? Had it not been for the allergies, though…
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