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La Cieca hears that tonight’s Lucia at the Met will be the criterion for deciding whether one or both of the leads might be replaced for the final two performances of the run including the HD telecast February 7.

La Cieca, alas, cannot be in the theater tonight, drat that pesky root canal, so she calls on you, cher public, to serve as citizen spies, getting the truth out about tonight’s performance via parterre.com.

As the performance tonight unfolds, please email La Cieca at lacieca@parterre.com or text La Cieca at 917-273-8708. Should you have a tidbit to share, please wait until intermission before firing up any electronic devices.

As to the possibility of cast changes in this Lucia, La Cieca will just note that two names recently mentioned here have apparently been “mentioned” at the Met as well, and one hears that backup plans to transport and reschedule the two artists (respectively) are already afoot.

La Cieca has obtained some exclusive footage from the first camera rehearsal for the upcoming HD telecast of Lucia di Lammermoor from the Met.  Extra rehearsals, she hears, have already been called!

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Cher public, a number of you have written asking how you can post links to YouTube videos in your comments. La Cieca is continuing to research the situation, but here’s a preliminary solution.

When you are copying and pasting the URL of the YouTube video into your comment, omit the http:// , beginning the address with “www” . In other words, if the URL as show on YouTube is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckP4OXzVevI

… what you should paste into your comment is the following:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckP4OXzVevI

What will show up in your posted comment will be formatted like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckP4OXzVevI

This will work as a link to the video.

So, to sum up:  Omit the http://