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Wet and wild intermission feature

by | 10:36 am | Feb 12, 2012

With this glimpse of Andreas Kriegenburg‘s production of Der Ring ohne Maschinen for Munich, La Cieca invites the cher public to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects during the week of February 12.

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  • zinka says:

    For all of you lovable people……..Ella wishes you a wonderful Valentine’s Day……..and thanks to all of you “lovers’ foraking my life and the lives of so many others so g…ooops…HAPPY!!!!!

    on February 13, 2012 at 12:13 PM
  • zinka says:

    I LOVED the under-appreciated Laurel Hurley….Born 2/14/ 1927..He top E flats were like CANNONS…and such a sweet person….

    on February 13, 2012 at 12:26 PM
  • zinka says:

    IN HONOR of La Cieca’s favorite funny Valentine…..Fleming born 2/1/4 1959….and i KNOW of the love,adoration,warmth, jubilo, gioia, and maledizione La Cieca has always felt for this lady.

    CH

    on February 13, 2012 at 12:43 PM
  • zinka says:

    But when the Valentine Baby stays away from POP…she is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    on February 13, 2012 at 1:12 PM
  • zinka says:

    IO non sono responsabile per questo…..It was forwarded to me by Caterina Mancini

    on February 13, 2012 at 1:23 PM
  • kashania says:

    A review of Domingo as Simon B. in LA. I found it interesting that the cast boasts Paolo Gavanelli (a genuine Simon) in the role of Paolo.

    http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/02/opera-review-pl%C3%A1cido-domingo-stars-in-simon-boccanegra-at-the-dorothy-chandler-pavilion.html

    on February 13, 2012 at 2:09 PM
  • whatever says:

    any chance that very interesting and rather wilberesque calendar that was posted shortly before the great server crash might reappear?

    on February 13, 2012 at 4:07 PM
    • Indiana Loiterer III says:

      September
      24 – Elisir
      26 – Turandot
      September
      27 – L’Elisir
      28 – Carmen
      29 m – Trovatore
      29 – Turandot

      October
      1 – L’Elisir
      2 – Carmen
      3 – Turandot
      4 – Trovatore
      5 – Elisir
      6 m – Turandot
      6 – Carmen
      8 – Trovatore
      9 – Otello
      10 – Elisir
      11 – Carmen
      12 – Trovatore
      13 m – Elisir
      13 – Otello
      15 – Carmen
      16 – Otello
      17 – Trovatore
      18 – Carmen
      20 m – Otello
      20 – Trovatore
      23 – Tempest
      25 – Trovatore
      26 – Figaro
      27 m – Otello
      27 – Tempest
      29 – Figaro
      30 – Turandot
      31 – Tempest

      November
      2 – Turandot
      3 m – Tempest
      3 – Figaro
      5 – Turandot
      6 – Tempest
      7 – Figaro
      8 – Ballo
      9 – Turandot
      10 m – Tempest
      10 – Figaro
      12 – Ballo
      13 – Figaro
      14 – Tempest
      15 – Ballo
      16 – Tito
      17 m – Tempest
      17 – Figaro
      19 – Ballo
      20 – Tito
      23 – Aida
      24 m – Tito
      24 – Ballo
      26 – Aida
      27 – Ballo
      28 – Giovanni
      29 – Aida
      30 – Ballo

      December
      1 m – Tito
      1 – Giovanni
      3 – Aida
      4 – Ballo
      5 – Giovanni
      6 – Tito
      7 – Aida
      8 m – Ballo
      8 – Giovanni
      10 – Tito
      11 – Giovanni
      12 – Aida
      13 – Troyens
      14 – Ballo
      15 m – Aida
      15 – Giovanni
      17 – Troyens
      18 – Barber
      19 – Aida
      20 – Giovanni
      21 – Troyens
      22 m – Barber
      22 – Aida
      26 m – Barber
      26 – Troyens
      27 – Barber
      28 – Aida
      29 m – Troyens
      29 – Barber
      31 – Stuarda

      January
      1 – Troyens
      2 – Turandot
      3 – Barber
      4 – Stuarda
      5 m – Troyens
      5 – Barber
      7 – Turandot
      8 – Stuarda
      9 – Trovatore
      10 – Turandot
      11 – Rondine
      12 m – Trovatore
      12 – Stuarda
      14 – Rondine
      15 – Stuarda
      16 – Trovatore
      17 – Ory
      18 – Rondine
      19 m – Stuarda
      19 – Trovatore
      21 – Ory
      22 – Rondine
      23 – Stuarda
      24 – Trovatore
      25 – Ory
      26 m – Rondine
      26 – Stuarda
      28 – Rigoletto
      29 – Ory
      30 – Elisir
      31 – Rigoletto

      February
      2 m – Ory
      2 – Elisir
      4 – Rigoletto
      5 – Ory
      6 – Elisir
      8 – Rigoletto
      9 m – Elisir
      9 – Carmen
      12 – Rigoletto
      13 – Carmen
      15 – Parsifal
      16 m – Rigoletto
      16 – Carmen
      18 – Parsifal
      19 – Rigoletto
      20 – Carmen
      21 – Parsifal
      22 – Carlo
      23 m – Carmen
      23 – Rigoletto
      25 – Carlo
      26 – Carmen
      27 – Parsifal
      28 – Carlo

      March
      1 – Carmen
      2 m – Parsifal
      4 – Rimini
      5 – Parsifal
      6 – Carlo
      8 – Parsifal
      9 m – Carlo
      9 – Rimini
      11 – Otello
      12 – Rimini
      13 – Carlo
      14 – Traviata
      15 – Otello
      16 m – Rimini
      16 – Carlo
      18 – Traviata
      19 – Rimini
      20 – Otello
      21 – Faust
      22 – Rimini
      23 m – Traviata
      23 – Otello
      25 – Faust
      26 – Traviata
      27 – Otello
      28 – Faust
      30 m – Traviata
      30 – Otello

      April
      2 – Faust
      3 – Traviata
      4 – Giulio
      5 – Faust
      6 m – Rheingold
      6 – Traviata
      9 – Giulio
      12 – Giulio
      13 m – Walkure
      13 – Rigoletto
      16 – Rigoletto
      19 – Giulio
      20 m – Siegfried
      20 – Rigoletto
      22 – Giulio
      23 – Gotter
      24 – Rigoletto
      25 – Rheingold
      26 – Walkure
      27 m – Giulio
      27 – Rigoletto
      29 – Siegfried
      30 – Giulio

      May
      1 – Rigoletto
      2 – Gotter
      3 – Giulio
      4 m – Dialogues
      4 – Rheingold
      6 – Walkure
      7 – Giulio
      8 – Siegfried
      9 – Dialogues
      10 – Giulio
      11 m – Gotter
      11 – Dialogues

      on February 13, 2012 at 5:21 PM
  • grimoaldo says:

    Has anybody posted the classical Grammy winners?

    Engineered album, classical: Aldridge: Elmer Gantry

    Producer of the year, classical: Judith Sherman

    Orchestral performance: Brahms, Symphony No. 4 by Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel

    Opera recording: Adams: Doctor Atomic

    Choral performance: Light & Gold -- Eric Whitacre, conductor (Christopher Glynn & Hila Plitmann; The King’s Singers, Laudibus, Pavão Quartet & The Eric Whitacre Singers)

    Small-ensemble performance: Mackey: Lonely Motel – Music from Slide

    Classical instrumental solo: Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra by Christopher Lamb, Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Nashville Symphony

    Classical vocal solo: Joyce DiDonato with Kazushi Ono and Orchestre de l’Opera National de Lyon with Choeur de l’Opera National de Lyon for Diva Divo

    Contemporary classical composition: Robert Aldridge and Herschel Garfein’s Elmer Gantry
    http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Grammys+2012+Winners+list+includes+Adele+Fighters+Civil+Wars+more/6144033/story.html

    Congrats to JDD!!

    on February 13, 2012 at 4:57 PM
  • The Wistful Pelleastrian says:

    That Grammy crowd gave a standing ovation to an opera aria!! So proud of opera!!

    – Joyce DiDonato

    *****************************

    This reminds me of a comment that appeared in The Guardian a while back:

    “But that’s not opera…. It’s a ravishingly gorgeous, stunningly constructed, heart wrenching aria. It’s a song. A 5 minute song. Everyone loves 5 minute songs. Just because that stunning few minutes of music (Nessun Dorma), performed by that incredible voice, delighted the world, and happened to be from an opera, it does not follow that as many people will embrace opera”

    on February 13, 2012 at 6:35 PM
    • MontyNostry says:

      Presumably JDD was singing that aria, so some of the standing ovation went to her too, no doubt deservedly. (Is she being a little ‘Aw, shucks’ there, like when people say they are ‘humbled’ by having praise heaped on them? I’ve never understood that one.)

      on February 13, 2012 at 6:58 PM
    • brooklynpunk says:

      ” it does not follow that as many people will embrace opera”

      …and then again…perhaps SOME OF THEM …WILL..?!?– or at least , have their curiousities SOMEWHAT peaked, a little..or maybe at least think “This opera crap ain’t as lame as I thought…”?

      I think it might be a TAD churlish to mock Ms. D. on her optimistic remark, no?…ya gotta start SOMEWHERE…and somehow.. to try and develop some awareness/interest…!

      A lot of my own growing tolerance/ and even –liking of for contemporary popular music comes from watching groups I might not otherwise have ever listened to, on these awards-shows.. maybe it can work the “other way around” for some who have never really listened to “serious” music, as well?

      on February 13, 2012 at 7:04 PM
      • ianw2 says:

        Unfortunately I think there is a lot of truth in it. The saturation of ‘Nessun dorma’ at the 1990 World Cup didn’t lead to a surge in opera subscriptions- it lead to a surge of interest in The Three Tenors (i.e opera broken into five minute song chunks).

        There may be a small number of people who went back to the source, but I think they’d be a minority (and, if the rest of Turandot didn’t live up to that thirty second Nessun climax…).

        The difference in your example is that you’re experiencing a new type of music in the same format as the rest of it (that is clumsy, sorry). In that you hear a five minute track from a new band, you can then go an hear dozens of other 3-5 minute tracks from the same band. Its different from hearing a three minute Nessun then going back to a 2 hour opera.

        I do think people come to opera in ‘chunks’ but I do tend to agree with the idea that hearing a lavishly produced Nessun (or whatever Jenkins is warbling nowadays) rarely translates into a future opera fan.

        on February 13, 2012 at 8:04 PM
        • ianw2 says:

          I should add “in itself” to the last para. I doubt that a lavishly produced three minute excerpt alone leads to a new opera fan.

          on February 13, 2012 at 8:06 PM
  • Noel Dahling says:

    Deborah Voigt tweeted:
    How lucky is Adele that her surgery worked??? Lucky that no matter how much u grind on cords inappropriately, modern medicine can”fix it.”

    I find this ironic coming from a woman whose own vocal decline is the most discussed in recent memory in operatic circles. Too bad modern medicine can’t restore Voigt’s pre-surgery voice.

    on February 13, 2012 at 7:53 PM
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