Tanned, rested and ready to present, La Cieca invites you, the cher public, to select the best, worst and most egregious opera performances of the 2011-2012 season. Following an intricate and overly tedious nomination procedure by the parterre blue-ribbon committee, your doyenne has assembled the official Pubie ballots. You are invited to vote on your selections after the jump. Read more »
Overture! Light the lights! And what heights you hit indeed, cher public, in La Cieca’s “Gold Standard” competition. The level of attention to detail of balance of repertoire, sensitive casting, and sheer yearning for dementia in your comments suggested that as a group, the parterriani are ready to take on the artistic direction of any of the world’s great theaters. A few of you exceeded even these generally elevated standards, and La Cieca will recognize you after the jump. Read more »
Rusalka, in the marvelous production by Stefan Herheim, is now streaming live from La Monnaie. La Cieca is sure the cher public will not be shy about sharing their opinions about this staging!
A live webcast of Ariadne auf Naxos (starring Our Own Renée Fleming) will be transmitted from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden Saturday afternoon starting at 2:15 PM ET.
La Cieca thinks it would be fun for the cher public to play George Steel (or, given the difficulty of the task, Superman) and devise an upcoming season for NYCO.
Congratulations and thanks to all the many, many parterriani who participated in the second annual Bühnenweihfestspielkrieg…
For this final evening of 2011, La Cieca invites you to a final chat. Starting at 6:30 PM, the cher public are invited to wade into The Enchanted Island, broadcast live from the Met.
“There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne,” says La Cieca (pictured, left). As she prepares to bid 2011 adieu, your doyenne invites the cher public (artist’s conception, right) to join her in making a few resolutions for 2012.
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