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  • papopera: Well, if she forgot the words, why didn’t she go TRA LA LA LA LA DEE DEE LA LA LA ? 8:24 AM
  • papopera: Hey hey Zinka, that’ll teach you. 8:13 AM
  • Buster: That Ballo won does not surpise me one bit. I have not seen the performance, but I remember JJ’s... 8:11 AM
  • RobNYNY1957: You have to admit it was a pretty damned peculiar voice. Weak and senza vibrato in the first octave,... 8:09 AM
  • arepo: Ballo was a disgrace! Such stupid stuff-it-down-your -throat symbolisms and juvenile bits and pieces. An... 7:54 AM
  • 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

Une femme d’un incertain âge

On this, the anniversary of her natal day, May 15, La Cieca likes to think back to that moment, a number of years ago (but who is counting) when she was “born.” It was in little Dallas, my God, of all unlikely places, and she can remember as if it were only yesterday…. Read more »