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amazon grace

by | 2:38 pm | Dec 31, 2008

La Cieca wishes to thank you, cher public, for making this year’s Amazon Associates advertising program successful beyond her wildest dreams.

And now, the top ten most ordered items of 2008!

1. Wagner: The Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival

2. Marilyn Horne – The Complete Decca Recitals

3. The Original Jacket Collection: Montserrat Caballé

4. Legendary Perfomances of Leyla Gencer

5. Vivaldi – Ercole s’ul Termodonte (Spoleto Festival 2006)

6. Lorraine at Emmanuel

7. Jonas Kaufmann: Romantic Arias

8. Rene Pape: Gods, Kings & Demons (Opera Arias)

9. La Nilsson: My Life in Opera

10. [Tie]

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lawn boy da lei

by | 1:06 pm | Dec 31, 2008

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siegfrieds rheinfark

by | 8:21 am | Dec 31, 2008

Eclectic “not news” site fark.com takes on high culture with their current Photoshop contest. The task: take an image from Francesca Zambello‘s WNO production of the Ring (well, maybe the culture’s not so high after all) and then tweak the context a bit. Best entry so far:

The original image and its many variations may be found at fark.com.

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a damned shame

by | 5:00 pm | Dec 29, 2008

Brothers under the Lederhosen: Alice Coote and Helmut Berger.

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dial-a-diva

by | 4:18 pm | Dec 29, 2008

Something is busted on the Met’s website, but that shouldn’t stop you from applying for this week’s $25 weekend night tickets, which after all are for Fleming’s Thaïs and Angela Gheorghiu/Roberto Alagna in the new Rondine. Instructions for this week’s lottery are as follows: Please enter our Weekend Ticket drawing by calling 212-362-6000 before 8:00 pm tonight, December 29. The available performances for this week are: Thaïs – January 2, 2009 at 8:00 pm La Rondine – January 3, 2009 at 8:00 pm

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booty call

by | 12:30 pm | Dec 29, 2008

As we approach the new year, La Cieca is gearing herself up to revive the recently dormant Unnatural Acts of Opera. Your doyenne was thinking that an interesting theme for 2009 might be “The Greatest Pirates,” i.e., the most important and impressive live, non-commerical recorded documents of opera. La Cieca is now accepting nominations from the cher public and will open the floor to discussion of the ten most demented and therefore most indispensable of the opera pirates.

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more of the infante filianoti

by | 6:08 pm | Dec 28, 2008

These videos showed up first on Opera Chic but were posted by babyfairy.

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only in her dreams

by | 1:51 pm | Dec 28, 2008

A snippet from “The View” documents the immaculate jawline and unfortunate Keely Smith diction of The Diva of the Future. In keeping with the season, she sings the classic “Awl be whom faw Krismuss.”

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rock the regie

by | 12:48 pm | Dec 28, 2008

In our previous Regie quiz, the eponymous character who managed to avoid being photographed (and, thus the title of the opera) was “La Calisto” by dear old Francesco Cavalli. The production was from the Landestheater Linz, directed by Matthias Davids. An opera from a more recent century, after the jump. 

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groundbreaker

by | 12:20 pm | Dec 28, 2008

Broadway star, opera diva, image consultant, self-help guru: the late Dorothy Sarnoff was all these and more. But did you know that (according to the New York Times) Ms. Sarnoff was also a pioneer in the field of gay-themed opera?

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