Congratulations Baritenor for the fastest Regie guess in history: in less than 13 minutes he correctly identified the opera was indeed Turandot.
Let’s see how long it takes to come up with a title for this week’s Regie puzzler. Remember, everyone, if you’ve seen the production, reviews or photos, disqualify yourself while others play. Read more »
What the Met’s opening night was like for those who (unlike your plebian doyenne) enjoy celebrity status. Read more »
Suffering artist Wenarto has decided to take arms against his sea of YouTube troubles and move his act to the less-celebrated but perhaps friendlier venue of Vimeo.com. What could be more fitting than that he should make his debut with a farewell.
“Oh, Mary, was I wasted last night! After a few ‘Rene Flemings’ I was so polluted that I mistook Rufus Wainwright for a girl! Hey, wait a minute. There’s no alcohol in this drink…” [The Martha Blog]
[In fact , this is Washington National Opera's production of Les pêcheurs de perles with Norah Amsellem and Charles Castronovo, photo by Karin Cooper. La Cieca invites the cher public to supply their own alternative captions.]
La Cieca dedicates this video to pop singer/Broadway belter Clay Aiken. Nice to have you with us, buddy, and it’s about fucking time. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/JjK1k9y7ccY" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
As usual when it’s a Fleming Flapper doing the writing, everything is everyone else‘s fault: poor Renée just sort of wanders in off the street and all this stuff keeps happening to her:
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/7HMCZ589eKc" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] “WHAT in GAY hell was jumping around him?” exclaims a puzzled YouTube fan, and La Cieca agrees that even the gifted Stephen Costello seems nonplussed by, well, all that gay hell. (This clip is from a recent Rigoletto performance.)
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