There was a lot of circling around the title of the most recent Regie quiz, so La Cieca can’t name a clear winner. Several of you were correct, though, in hinting it was Prodaná nevesta, specifically Andreas Homoki‘s production for the Komische Oper Berlin. Something a bit frillier next. Read more »
The cher public (as always, pictured) are invited to talk about anything and everything in this, your general discussion thread for the week of July 17.
Those of you who are fascinated by new opera and those of you interested in the American labor movement will find common ground in the Rockland, a new opera by Jussi Tapola and Jukka Linkola. It’s based on an incident in Michigan’s history: in 1906, a group of striking Finnish-American copper miners were confronted by sheriff’s deputies, and two of the workers were killed. Read more »
La Cieca has just heard that the great American baritone Cornell MacNeil died earlier today. He was 88.
It’s a scorcher out there, cher public, at least in New York, so perhaps some of you will want to stay inside where it’s cool, and enjoy a Saturday afternoon chat, where things are bound to heat up. A few suggestions for you listening pleasure, after the jump.
Which gay operatic power couple’s once blossoming romance has struck out after an alliance lasting over two decades?
Nathan Gunn (not really pictured) made his debut as Eugene Onegin in Cincinnati Opera’s production of Tchaikovsky’s opera last night. He certainly has the physicality for the part and the vocal potential. In this performance he sang well and expressively but without the heft to fully project over the orchestra.
George Steel talks about “leaving the travertine fastness of Lincoln Center and coming out to meet the people of New York: in Brooklyn, in Harlem, in Central Park, on the West Side, the East Side — wherever New Yorkers live and love their favorite opera company,” in, of all places, the Huffington Post.
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