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  • Quanto Painy Fakor: O Dio! I have not seen Leonie in this outfit for ages. She wore it many times in NY too.... 9:23 PM
  • Quanto Painy Fakor: I wish they had made video of Leonie’s Ariadne with King. httpv://www.you... 9:19 PM
  • laddie: I too liked Ballo so much I am going to buy it. I also would buy the Parsifal. I voted for Rigoletto as... 9:18 PM
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  • Camille: You go on back to Jackson Heights, Miss Duquesa Gurl! 9:13 PM
  • Quanto Painy Fakor: 92 year old tenor – amazing! httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=wXuh E7ovZaY 9:11 PM
  • Maury D: What’s to explain? Even around here, opera queens are, by and large, sentimental biddies comforted... 9:09 PM
  • oedipe: Yes Camille, of course. 9:02 PM

And the 2013 Pubies go to…

One startling upset catches the eye among the many winners (if that is the word) of the 2013 Parterre Box Awards. Read more »

Lady for a décolleté

La Cieca invites the cher public to open up and discuss any off-topic or general interests they might want to get off their chest.

Zurück vom “Ring!”

Peter Gelb says the Ring will definitely not return, as originally planned, in 2017, and where has La Cieca heard that before? [New York Times]

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Encore! Encore!

For tomorrow afternoon’s chat at La Casa della Cieca, your doyenne offers an unusual double blast from the past.

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Meeting Mrs. Haines socially

The Wiener Staatsoper should be a source of some interesting backstage gossip next September as the company presents on alternating nights Angela Gheorghiu as Tosca and Aleksandra Kurzak as Violetta.

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Heir presumptive?

>Andris Nelsons has been named the new music director of the Boston Symphony.

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Secret origin

On this, the occasion of her 37th birthday [see below], La Cieca is happy to repeat the story of how she came to be born.

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Before her all Rome trembled

A sneak preview of Cecilia Bartoli’s new recording of Norma may be found on the website of The Guardian.

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