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La Cieca extends her congratulations to her little sister Opera Chic for a namecheck in the AP story by Ronald Blum on the Met’s 2009-10 production cutbacks. According to Blum’s story, dropping Ghosts of Versailles from the Met’s repertoire will save “more than $1 million.”
In the unfortunately ongoing “more bad news” section, La Cieca has learned that San Francisco Opera’s costcutting measures will include dropping Peter Grimes from next season.
La Cieca, heard that the Met had a board meeting today and suggested that the senior management is to take 10 per cent pay cut, and suggested that the board member annual dues of $250,000 annual will have to be increased to help the opera during this time probably up to $350,000 and the lower level be upped to $150,000, yet they are getting rid of Die Frau, Lady Macbeth, etc. What are they doing? Are they crazy?