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  • papopera: oH YES, wonderful great composer, rarely performed due to ignorance. 11:24 AM
  • MontyNostry: I thought there was some special French reference I wasn’t getting. 11:12 AM
  • MontyNostry: Oh, U and non-U … I remember reading about that at school. Didn’t get all of it at the... 11:11 AM
  • kashania: La Cieca’s bringing out all the big guns. First we had the legendary Macbeth broadcast last week... 11:09 AM
  • oedipe: Masse-Ney? 11:06 AM
  • manou: Maréchal d’en pire… 10:54 AM
  • grimoaldo: Monty - http://www.okcupid .com/tests/the-u-o r-non-u-test 10:46 AM
  • MontyNostry: Can you give us a clue to the reference(apart from the pun and the literal meaning, which I get)? 10:37 AM

Renaissance man

muti_renaissanceLa Cieca hears whispers from rehearsals of the Met’s eagerly-awaited new production of Attila that maestro Riccardo Muti is somewhat more, shall we say, engaged in the process than your average stick-waver. Read more »

The view from Kareol

kleiber_thumbPoet of the podium Carlos Kleiber leads the final minutes of Tristan und Isolde from the mystic abyss of Bayreuth, circa 1975. Read more »