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  • Porgy Amor: I considered throwing it my vote too, because I truly did love it, and I knew PARSIFAL didn’t... 6:24 AM
  • manou: Can I go to Florence instead and have an ice-cream at the Granduca? Whatever it costs will be worth it.... 6:12 AM
  • Baltsamic Vinaigrette: Five out of five, manou. Award yourself a trip to Rome for the Titian exho (if it’s... 5:44 AM
  • manou: OK Baltsamic – I have restrained myself long enough: Bill Gates Marc Almond Holly Hunter Jeremy Irons... 4:47 AM
  • m. croche: Er, “filled̶ 1;. 3:52 AM
  • m. croche: At the time, I had recently come off of a few rounds of chemo. I was filed with sympathy. 3:51 AM
  • Feldmarschallin: Well it certainly didn’t take long to bring up this old canard again. Mara Zampieri had a... 2:49 AM
  • johnkb: We must be sisters from different misters. My Scotto story started with a MET tour to Memphis and her... 1:07 AM

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 »

Requiem for a dream

Last night, La Cieca finally got around to watching that documentary about the rocky road to the new Ring at the Met, and she has a thought or two about this whole brouhaha. Read more »

Recycled

Katarina Dalayman will sing the role of Brünnhilde in this evening’s performance of Wagner’s Siegfried, replacing Deborah Voigt, who is ill…. Siegfried, conducted by Derrick Inouye…” Read more »

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Chest the ticket

“Nathan Gunn Replaces Deborah Voigt”

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Ariadne, abandoned?

Soprano Amber Wagner will sing all the performances of Ariadne auf Naxos at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 2011-2012, replacing Deborah Voigt, who “is focusing increasingly on dramatic soprano roles and has made the decision to remove the role of Ariadne from her repertoire for the time being.” Performances run November 19-December 11.

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Every little thing, every little thing…

An “unbelievably honest narrative of a woman caught in a dangerous cycle of addiction and illness who overcame her demons in an utterly triumphant way” — that’s what publisher Harper Collins is calling the forthcoming memoir by  Deborah Voigt, tentatively titled “True Confessions of a Down to Earth Diva.” The tome is scheduled for publication in 2013. [New York Times]

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And the Pubies go to…

At long last, the most closely guarded secret of 2011 (besides, you know, everything about what’s going to happen to City Opera) is about to be revealed. Ladies and public, the Second Annual Parterre Cher Public Choice Awards!

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Cobra Jewel Song

The annual Richard Tucker gala came and went at Avery Fisher Hall with the usual quota of gaffes, wardrobe malfunctions, no-shows, too-much-shows, substitutions and surprise guests (well, guest).  And sandwiched between the routine, the egocentric and the just plain dull were moments of true dementia, the moments that we melomanes live and die for.  Most of those moments were due to the antics of a certain well-known Slavic diva (of whom more later).  But first, the specs.  

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