desperately seeking critic
La Cieca is looking for a member of the cher public who is already planning to attend the opening night gala at the Met and is willing to write about it for parterre.com. Your doyenne will need 400 – 600 words by 11 AM on Tuesday, September 23 for publication that day with your byline. If you are willing to commit to getting in a review of the night’s festivities by this deadline, contact lacieca@parterre.com. Preference will be given to regular commenters, and attendance at the “La Voce Renée Fleming” launch party is a definite plus, but not required.
Thanks, La Cieca, hope you don’t mind. After all, I was sniffing around that photo, having been reminded about it on the earlier thread, and wondering how and if I could use it.
Did you get the Sun-readers-go-to-Don-Giovanni story? Check out the latest BBC Music Mag (Sept) for some amusing quotations in the little spat between The Sun and The Guardian.
My guess is it’s the Norns from a “socially relevant” production of Gotterdamerung in the national opera of one of the East European countries sometime in the 1980s.
Alternatively, The Rake’s Progress …