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Members of the cher public (pictured) will, La Cieca hopes, be happy to hear that the annual Opening Night Chat will transpire here at parterre.com once more on September 21. Discussion of the Met’s Tosca and (more to the point) whether Margaret Juntwait will be able to corral Blythe Danner into another gabfest will begin at 6:00 pm and continue through the evening.
Further listening may be planned by consulting the Met’s website, where the daily calendar has been updated with the Sirius/XM schedule through December.
Today is the 32nd anniversary of Her passing. One can tune in to Youtube for great excerpts from her Norma with various colleagues. God bless La Divina in Her final place of peace, oggi e per sempre.
We can only hope for more of Blythe Danner. Love your opening night chats. Should be fun, or at the very least, “fun”.
Mme La Cieca, that’s not you in the flower dress, right?
Is it just me or there’s only 3 broadcast a week on Sirius XM instead of four?
I can tell y’all without a shadow of a doubt that i am the guy in the tie behind grampa. I have not changed a bit.
I have a question for the illustrious minds and avid collectors in here. In her biography, Beverly Sills mentions how she was engaged to sing Sophie by Bernstein (she said she wanted the Marschallin, but Mr. B would have none of it). Can anyone tell me if a recording of that night has surfaced?
Is there any way the chat can be saved for those of us who may be on the plaza on Monday night?
It would be interesting to have Franco Z with Margaret at intermission – or, better yet, there to give a running commentary during the performance.
Or…maybe even Franco and Blythe….
Does anyone really know who the intermission guest will be?
I yearn for the day, well, night, when the intermission guest for opening night will be our own dear Doyenne.
That will signal a millennium of love, peace, and wicked puns.
That’s ME in the center, with the widow’s peak! When I still had hair! God, takes me back … Grandma Lick used to WHACK us HARD if we talked when “the machine,” as she deified it, was on … even those dumbass commercials (even then!). If only she were still alive to deal with cell phones in the concert hall.
Why aren’t there any midweek Elektra webcasts?
Is it possible that they just haven’t filled out the December schedule yet? The second and third weeks of December look rather sparse.
Or do Margaret and Will get to take the third week off for Christmas shopping?