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.
Heavens, Cieca, are you having trouble finding an in-house “critic” for the opening gala? I sympathize, so I’ve been thinking and here is a back-up idea: the live HD theatre presentation. I am attending at the Lensic in Santa Fe, which has a new $200,000 sound system courtesy Nancy King Zeckendorf (remember?), and the visuals last season were very swell. While I can’t be the one, bet you can find a volunteer in one of the movie theatres to do real-time reporting.
It’s a great idea, if only to report on the dresses/costumes. You know, i have always found RF looked very uncomfortable in that god-awful red dress in Cours la Reine — so maybe it will be a step up this time round.
And did you know Richard Ford is doing the costumes for “The Letter” at
SFeO, 09. Amusing.
Yr. devoted
FLORA DEL RIO GRANDE
Mrs. Belmont and I won’t be attending this year so we can’t chime in.
Mrs. Belmont is rather horrified about the entire affair.
I doubt the novelist Richard Ford will get too far on those costume designs, Mrmyster, so he’ll probably pass them along to the professional announced for the job, Tom Ford.
La Cieca, I thought you are VIP in the opera world?
Doesn’t Peter Gelb stuff your sequined bra with free tickets?
Although, I could be wrong.
…. Oh, wait, perhaps you’re just tired of writing about Fleming. Oh, yeah, that’s the reason why. Duh!
The woman on the right: isn’t that the full-length version of the jacket Renee was sporting the other day? I thought it looked familiar!
No, Melot’s Younger Brother, that was a Yohji Yamamoto creation.
Renée has said in print interviews that she adores Japanese designers. People like Issey Miyake and Yohji.
The woman on the right is actually the spitting image of the young and unsophisticated Mrs Edna Everage in her Moonee Ponds youth
Why don’t you give her a call?
More info on this iconic (I hesitate to use the over-used word) picture: apparently Weegee got the dame in the coat drunk in a local and wheeled her out to the opening – but it was still spontaneous, up to a point.
La Cieca, can you use that image copyright-free? I’d like to use it to illustrate a little piece on the readers of our tabloid The Sun let loose at Covent Garden.
Scaramuccio, La Cieca inserts “The Critic, Weegee” and copyright information into the alt text for the image. You might want to go a little farther and include a line of text with the copyright information. I find that the image is widely reproduced on the internet so my assumption is that the Weegee estate is not being particuarly strict about casual use of this image.