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  • Camille: Oh for pete’s sake, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!!!! You are nearly as incorrigible as yours truly, I... 10:59 PM
  • Bianca Castafiore: Oh my goodness, I’m not posting this here because it’s wonderful —... 10:52 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: Magicien magnifique. httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=TAWk rNoEfUE 10:36 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: Thanks for being born 200 years ago. httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=7Ttb z_cLOIg 10:33 PM
  • grimoaldo: Very interesting, thanks marshie. 10:04 PM
  • luvtennis: THere are numerous articles if you google them. Some would argue that the novel as a whole is a vast... 9:53 PM
  • Bianca Castafiore: manouelita, As they say, a waist is a terrible thing to mind!!!!!! 9:51 PM
  • La Valkyrietta: Happy birthday. httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=EZhS UX5Ix68 9:48 PM

T’would be a sacrilege to fling at another door

People named Jimmy or Placido don’t seem to know this, but when your brains or your bones send you the message, “Hang up the toe-shoes, Bobolink,” do it!  Next week the regular Met broadcast season begins; the fiction is that for 20 weeks we will all be listening to and chatting about the same opera.  (Yeah, sure!)  That makes this a good week to quit.   Read more »

Final curtain

Goodbye_Charlie
Join La Cieca tonight for a chat saluting the Met farewell (and 2,928th performance) of character tenor Charles Anthony. Read more »