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Cher Public

  • kashania: LMM: Well you know, once you get into the nitty gritty of the big adjectives, anything can happen. I... 6:04 PM
  • marshiemarkII: Indeedy Noel, can’t think of a better forum than the great Master’s birthday, but... 6:01 PM
  • Noel Dahling: Marshie, is this the appropriate venue for a discussion of the ‘grand Wagnerian line’... 5:35 PM
  • LittleMasterMiles: Boulez’s best music demands such particular performance skills and set-up that I doubt it... 5:31 PM
  • Nerva Nelli: I had the same thought, L’il Master Miles. I would add Henri Duparc, indisputably a true great... 5:22 PM
  • LittleMasterMiles: Funny, I found the tone monumental, and the refulgency transcendent. 5:15 PM
  • LittleMasterMiles: …one of the very, very, very few truly great French composers never to write an opera…... 5:11 PM
  • papopera: “refulgent tone, and transcendent monumentality̷ 0;” what a fucking pompous text !!! 5:05 PM

The case of the missing vehicle

La Cieca’s sources tell her that a planned revival of Faust at the Met in the fall of 2014 has been canceled, because who wants to see that ugly thing again, or else the leading lady didn’t feel like singing it, whichever. Anyway, the situation goes something like this: the company has under contract Anna Netrebko, Joseph Calleja, Artur Rucinski and René Pape for eight performances or so during that time.  Your assignment, cher public, is to come up with an opera with plausible roles for at least three, or ideally all four, of these artists. (Photo: Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera)

Tour de farce

UPDATE, Tuesday, 7:45 AM: The Met sent out a press release at 1:27 AM New York time today announcing major changes to its roster for the tour of Japan this month. La Cieca has revised the following gossip item (which appeared at 11 PM last night) to reflect the Met’s confirmations.  Read more »

Duke season

beczala_thumbQuoth the Met press office: “Piotr Beczala will sing the Duke in Verdi’s Rigoletto on Thursday, January 27, replacing Joseph Calleja who is ill.”

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calleja will sing met hoffmann

It’s been rumored, but you know how La Cieca feels about rumors. Anyway, here’s some solid proof that Joseph Calleja has been engaged for the Met’s new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann set for a December 3, 2009 opening.

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siriusly

Is it just me, or does Joseph Calleja sound simply amazing? La Cieca asks: is there a better lyric tenor out there today?

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