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  • la vociaccia: Speaking of Cardiff, here is an entire concert version of La Boheme with Valentina Nafornita as... 12:37 PM
  • oedipe: Opera is doing actually pretty well in places like Vienna, Paris, Munich and the like. But don’t... 12:07 PM
  • Jamie01: I would be inclined to agree if this were an established venue, with a sound system that had presumably... 11:44 AM
  • armerjacquino: Apologies, grim, if you were misinterpreted: but you did choose to make specific reference to... 11:43 AM
  • grimoaldo: Please do not interpret what I wrote as meaning that I have anything against “skinny... 11:34 AM
  • armerjacquino: Yes. We all went mad over Netrebko’s first go at the TROV Leonora- and rightly so, because... 11:26 AM
  • Cocky Kurwenal: ‘I agree that it’s not possible to draw firm conclusions about the quality of the singing... 11:18 AM
  • Cocky Kurwenal: Indeed. Plus the fact that, lamentable though it may be that Poplavskaya and Michael get so many... 11:16 AM

Pietà di me!

Perhaps, you, cher public, will be crying out the above-mentioned phrase when you hear the most recent vocal collage prepared by our dear DeCaffarrelli. It’s right after the jump. Read more »

Dead heat

Now the deadline has passed for the Immolation Quiz, La Cieca is happy if a bit puzzled to announce that the result is a tie: two of the cher public were able to identify 23 of the 25 voices in the quiz correctly.   Read more »

Final immolation update

The score in the Immolation Quiz now stands tied at 23 all, with both leading entries identifying wrongly the same two segments of the quiz. The names of these singers associated with those two fragments, furthermore, have not been guessed by anyone playing the quiz. Read more »

electra

Ich kann nicht überspitzen

Frankly, the response to the Elektra quiz was uneven. La Cieca will explain after the jump.

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lady_mac

Who was that Lady?

Much guesswork, most of it terribly astute, went into our most recent vocal ID quiz, and La Cieca is now ready to reveal the most accurate of a very accurate bunch.

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leigh_macbeth

In the day of success

“I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge.”

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screaming

Nun der Quiz mich müd gemacht

After a brilliantly collaborative start, the cher public fell just short of deciphering the complete Beim Schlafengehen quiz, though several of you did very well indeed.

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carry_on_cleo

A time to weep

Don’t let the headline worry you, cher public, what’s coming up after the jump is meant to be good clean fun, with a prize even.

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