Bring hither the fatted calf
La Cieca would like to welcome back into the parterre fold some members of the cher public (in the 10023 zip code, to be specific) who went missing for the past couple of months. We rejoice that those who were lost are now found!
La Cieca being ravished like a wanton tart! Well I never………..Oh! the memories of wicked Lana Turner in that great flopola The Prodigal with that co -star ‘British drink of water’ Edmund Purdom. A film that bumped into theatres and was out again, in a week. I realise the poster lies about ’2 years in the making’ and ‘a fortune to produce’. Unless, that had to do with 2 years planning Lana’s scarce pearl and lace costumes. Or ‘the so called fortune to make it’ was a financial feather bedding MGM studio ruse. It looked like it had been paid for, in kitty litter.
I forgot to add La Cieca, youe arms and arm pits are so out stretched too. Hope the fellow doesn’t get a surprise burrowing his nose into them. Why, a dab of Renee’s famous perfume here and there, will do the trick better than some standard feminine roll-on!
La Cieca obviously don’t need to blog. She could live off them knockers.
Can someone explain this post to me? Who’s being welcomed back?
Obviously some people in Manhattan – have they been snowed in? I am losing track of the weather your side (ours not much better).
But of course I am probably completely wrong.
Lincoln Center zip code is 10023
Mystery to me, too. But I’ll probably be kicking myself for my denseness once the meaning of La Cieca’s as always cabbalistic clues is eventually unfolded.
No explanation here — just a guess:
10023 is the zip code for Lincoln Center. Perhaps one or both of the operatic institutions in that locale had blocked access to Parterre.com for their staff?
Of course, some Net softwares will take it upon themselves to block “objectionable” content, but if the situation has been going on for months it suggests management was in no particular hurry to unblock this website.
Unfounded speculation! It’s what I live for.
Now THAT sound intelligent to me (bad news as I am usually wrong – see above)
Wouldn’t it be easy enough to access Parterre once you left work at said center?
I think this heavy allusion to the parable of the Prodigal Son is the real question. Who are playing the two sons and father?
And the secondary allusions, with the Shostakovich ballet for Balanchine telling this story being a tidy tie in with the ‘The Nose’ opening, staring Paulo Szot. And let’s not forget Opera News falls into that zip code as well.
Thus, Opera News is the father, with Mr. Gunn and Mr. Szot playing the sons.
Could they have have flung the doors open to their considerably sized closet for Mr. Szot after ignoring his personal life in their article? Was an apology offered to La Cieca for their mistake?
Isn’t The Prodigal Son by Prokofiev?
Yeah, it is by Prokofiev so there is no tie in with
the Nose.
Prokofiev wrote the score for Prodigal’s Son for Diaghilev during Prokofiev’s period of “exile” from Russia so it’s sort of a hybrid Russian/Western work.
Shostakovich’s works were all Soviet and he certainly had his difficulties with the Stalinist government.
RDaggle: Your speculation seems quite reasonable. If true, it clearly indicates that the powers that be over at Lincoln Center would rather know what is being said here at Parterre than not know.
Here’s one conductor that should never make it to NYC 10023:
Oren is ridiculous in this video
He was actually wonderful many years ago when I heard him conduct Nabucco in the arena – but I was sitting way up/back and wouldn’t have been able to see/hear his antics if there were any. Boheme in the arena is sort of an absurd idea, anyway.
Reliable sources have it that a small group of the “cher public” were trapped behind their shopping carts in the cheese section at Fairway. Their cries went unheard and only a timely intervention by Matthew Epstein was able to free them.
More like a psyhco case than a musican.
10023 ist ein heiliger Postfach.