"Blogs are awfully decorative, don't you think?"
A brainy reader points out to La Cieca that her little blog is mentioned this month in The New York Review of Books. The lovely and talented Sarah Boxer discusses a bevy of books on blogs and blogging, modestly mentioning only in passing her own tome
on that very subject. As an example of the vast variety of blogs out there, she notes
on that very subject. As an example of the vast variety of blogs out there, she notesYou can read about the Iraq war from Iraqi bloggers, from American soldiers (often censored now), or from scholars like Juan Cole, whose blog, Informed Comment, summarizes, analyzes, and translates news from the front. For opera, to take another example, you have Parterre Box, which is kind of campy, or Sieglinde's Diaries and My Favorite Intermissions, written by frequent Met-goers, or Opera Chic, a Milan-based blog focused on La Scala (which followed in great detail the scandal of Roberto Alagna's walkout during Aida a year ago).La Cieca can only say, thank you cher public; without you I am nothing!
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Wasn't sure if you were aware of this, o blind one, but you also got a mention in an Opera Magazine article about a year or so back. Sorry I don't have the quote.
And I have mentioned you to fellow bloggers when I post on Youtube.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n747/ai_20013303
That's the Advocate from 1997.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parterre_box
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3DC113EF934A15757C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
JJ, did you really "gush" about Ms. Voigt?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1310841
And perhaps most impressively of all, NPR.
Oh,my! I'm so proud. And to think it all started on her little homemade Gutenberg press, with her little hand carved letters. What must Debbie have looked like in a wood block print as JJ "gushed" over her in 1997. And to think that now, he merely types it and presses a button and it goes off into the ethyl alc..., er, ether.
Yesterday, I was in the ER for a few hours and I whiled away the time listening to the podcast of act I of Mose, with Zylis-Gara (pretty impressive) and Act I of Scotto's I Vespri. Yowza! I have to say that I've never been a big fan of Scotto, but I never got to hear her in her prime. She was fabulous! It was especially interesting to compare the Act I aria as sung by both Scotto and Gencer (the bonus on the podcast). I tried to count Gencer's glottal attacks but lost count early on.
Sanford: the point is not to count Madame Gencer's glottal attacks, but rather to cherish them :)
Completely off-topic, but noticed today that the Met Futures page has been updated with many new and interesting developments.
2008-09 season has Hasmik Papian becoming Sondra Radvanovsky's second lady in the new TROVATORE, which will also feature Hvorostovsky and Lucic as Count di Luna.
2009-10 has Luisi conducting what will surely be a lush and wonderful reading of FIGARO.
2010-11 has Simon Rattle and William Christie making their debuts. The former will conduct girlfriend Magdalena Kozena and Stephane Degout in PELLEAS, while the latter will lead COSI FAN TUTTE with Miah Persson, Isabel Leonard and Danielle de Niese. Also, Joyce DiDonato joins the cast for the house premiere of LE COMTE ORY.
The 2011-12 ANNA BOLENA with Netrebko is confirmed, along with current wunderkind Gustavo Dudamel debuting in L'ELISIR with Florez and Damrau.
Surprisingly, the Gheorghiu-Alagna CARMEN is still on, with a revival skedded for the following season with Kate Aldrich.
Not to mention, Karita's first Tosca, Netrebko's 4 heroines in "Hoffmann" (Olympia, Trebs? Really? Don't think so), Esa Pekka Salonen's debut, a new Ring cycle from Robert Lepage, and Muti's debut Conducting Attila, with Ramon Vargas, Violetta Urmana, and Ildar Abdrazakov. Renaaaayyy is returning to her Opera Rara-fied roots and singing Rossini's Armida (WHYYYYYYYY?) And Dessay is going to drive the audiences mad as Ophelia, if not with her singing, than with her overacting. Why not Damrau? Or Erika what'shername, the Queen of the Night?
Wow, I got about a grillion hits today. Thanks for the nod!
Sanford, most of those upcoming events were already common knowledge, which is why I didn't mention them. I wanted to direct attention to the new updates on the page.
Casual, they weren't common knowledge to me. Until you mentioned the Futures section of the Met website, I didn't even know it existed. I've only gone to the site to check the archives. Is Joyce singing Isolier in "Ory"? If so, who's her soprano. Please don't say Netrebko or Dessay. Sumi Jo did a great recording of it.
The last I heard the soprano was going to be Damrau, but I guess that isn't confirmed yet.
Now, Damrau and DiDonato are a pair I would pay to see live.
The Met Futures page is part of the MetManiac website. It is not part of the official Met website. There is a disclaimer to that effect on the Futures page.
Thanks for the Heads Up about Met Maniac. What I was reading was an archived article from Opera News on the Met website, called"Window on the Future".
"KIND of campy"?! Ms. Boxer hasn't really been paying attention, has she? :)
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