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  • Rory Williams: LOL, thanks, Camille! 11:27 AM
  • Clita del Toro: Live Siegfried from Munich is on new—Act I 10:48 AM
  • armerjacquino: Actually, that’s not true about Vickers- I have the Solti AIDA somewhere. 10:14 AM
  • armerjacquino: I don’t have any Crespin (just an accident) or any Vickers (who I consciously avoid). 10:13 AM
  • prettygirl: SALOME!!! Did anyone else die and go to heaven on Thursday night? 9:28 AM
  • Clita del Toro: Dumb, off-topic topic: Singers whose recordings you have never, ever bought. Mine are: Domingo,... 9:07 AM
  • Cocky Kurwenal: They did it in Seattle after Vancouver and before the recording, so it looks like they’ve... 8:50 AM
  • Cocky Kurwenal: Quite surprised the Vicar hasn’t chimed in with your enthusiasm for Carolyn Sampson. Come... 8:42 AM

General Tso’s regie

regie_05_23_01It truly is a red-letter day when La Cieca manages to propose a Regie quiz that fails to elicit from you clever pusses even a single correct guess. Last week’s opera was something of a double whammy, as it consisted of a modern piece produced in a non-traditional manner. Enough suspense: the work was Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers as performed at the Aalto Musiktheater Essen, directed by Karoline Gruber.

Shall we try again?

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regie_05_30_02regie_05_30_03And remember, cher public, the usual rule applies: if you actually recognize the production, then stay quiet while others guess!

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