Today’s Met broadcast is The Nose. Our habitual chat begins at 12:30 pm, and the details are after the jump.
You know La Cieca wouldn’t miss the chance to host a chat on so rare an occasion as today’s Met broadcast of Attila. Of course, on the radio you won’t get a chance to experience the Miuccia Prada or Herzog & de Meuron contributions, but your doyenne is sure that fellow chatters (chatterers?) will be glad to tell you all about the visuals. The chat begins at 1:00 pm, and the details are after the jump.
Parterre fave Joyce DiDonato headlines an all-star performance of Le nozze di Figaro broadcast this afternoon from Lyric Opera of Chicago. [WFMT] Read more »
This afternoon's broadcast of La bohème (beginning at 1:00 pm) is sure to provoke lots of commentary from the parterriani. Conductor: Marco Armiliato; Mimì: Anna Netrebko; Musetta: Nicole Cabell; Rodolfo: Piotr Beczala; Marcello: Gerald Finley; Schaunard: Massimo Cavalletti; Colline: Oren Gradus; Benoit/Alcindoro: Paul Plishka. Read more »
Let's get conversational this afternoon, cher public, for the Met broadcast of Ariadne auf Naxos.
It's that time of week once again, cher public, the Saturday afternoon chat accompanying the Met's matinee broadcast. The topic of today's colloquy? Why, it's La Fille du Régiment beginning at 1:00 PM! Read more »
La Cieca welcomes cher plebians and cher patricians alike to a chat during this afternoon's Met broadcast of Simon Boccanegra. The performance begins at 1:00 PM. Read more »
UPDATE: La Cieca hears that Sondra Radvanovsky is ill this afternoon, which presumably means Juliana DiGiacomo will sing Lina. Read more »
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