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Cher Public

  • pasavant: Let’s put lamp shades on our heads and start a Koanga Line! 6:38 PM
  • mia apulia: I am surprised at how moving this is, all the more sad… 6:25 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: Helen starts at 1.40. httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=K-oU i7YzZ-Y 5:40 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: youtube is being difficult httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=-tZO uRRgde4 5:31 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: A light interlude with one of the most fabulous Brünhildes that ever graced an opera stage. Helen... 5:29 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: kashania, I just listened to the Walküre of the eve of Pearl Harbor, the Varnay debut. Bad things... 5:18 PM
  • m. croche: For the record, the Lortzing Wildschuetz from the Wiener Volksoper was a good deal of fun from start to... 4:24 PM
  • RosinaLeckermaul: Our local station is playing the Chicago WERTHER with Polenzani and Koch. Very good performance.... 3:30 PM

Our retrospection will now be all to the future


La Cieca predicts you will be seeing more of the same old puritans at the Met next season, and she’s not just talking about the ones who slouch around during intermission hissing, “You call that a trill?” But uou will also see six new productions (including a Met premiere of a 21st century work) and the local debut of one of opera’s most controversial stage directors. Read more »