La Cieca just returned from the HD of The Audition, a documentary about the 2007 Met National Council Auditions. The film puts her in an optimistic mood about the future of opera performance, or at any rate opera performers. Focus is on three young tenors who (spoiler) all end up winning the competition. Read more »
“Opera star Paul Potts has given Susan Boyle his backing – and believes she could become as big a star as him.” [via WalesOnline]
The offbeat 1976 Robert Altman film Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson features divas Evelyn Lear and Noelle Rogers among the love interests of Paul Newman‘s eponymous Wild West showman. The complete movie is now available for viewing on YouTube.
The Met broadcasts Wagner’s Siegfried this afternoon. Discuss. Listen at noon EDT on Sirius or RealNetworks or your favorite internet radio station. Online: the libretto and the vocal score. And check out La Cieca’s Amazon Deal of the Day: the complete 1953 Bayreuth Ring conducted by Clemens Krauss, priced as low as $39.87!
Remember a couple of weeks ago when La Cieca called that NYT story about a potential strike at the New York City Opera “the scariest Friday news dump ever?” Well, she was wrong, wrong, wrong. The winner and new bone-chilling champion of all Friday news dumps just sneaked into the Times online. (Those of you with super-keen vision may be able to find it on page C-2 of tomorrow’s print edition.) In brief: since last fall, City Opera has “raided its endowment of a total of $23.5 million” to pay off debt and to meet current payroll “and other needs.” [...]
To the Met this evening, where Željko LuÄić jumps in as Rigoletto opposite Diana Damrau and Joseph Calleja.
La Cieca has just heard that Stephen Costello is the 2009 Richard Tucker Award Winner.
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