¡Mira! Mean, moody magnificent Manuela Trasobares! Read more »
Composed in the early 1930’s, the opera was well received at its 1934 Leningrad premiere, and was also a success in Moscow a couple of years later. Then one evening Stalin came to see it and walked out mid-performance. Read more »
They should have overlooked the cell phone, but arrested her for this video. Read more »
La Cieca realizes it’s not quite fair to judge an artist from a few minutes of video or from what is apparently a dress rehearsal. But it doesn’t seem to be going out on much of a limb to say: this Nadja Michael can’t sing.
People often come up to me and say, La Cieca, “Who do you think will be the next Renée Fleming?” Well, all, right, that doesn’t actually happen often, or even rarely. In fact, it doesn’t happen at all. But be that as it may, La Cieca has found “the next Renée Fleming,” or at least someone who will be able to take up the slack in pop crossover when Fleming finally figures out how awful she sounds in this stuff. Again, it’s not like that’s going to happen, but, anyway, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Measha Brueggergosman. To which [...]
An old clip, from 2005 in fact, but oddly prescient, perhaps. Who knew that Les vêpres siciliennes could sound so much like Verismo? Not the Greatest of E’s (Don’t thank La Cieca; this stunner was sent in by Our Own Kernita Makilla.)
La Cieca figures if Adelaida Negri can make a comeback, so can your doyenne.
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