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  • willym: well I just talked to the spouse – we looked at the programme again and decided this was a not to be... 2:18 PM
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Star-spangled girl

Team_americaThe birthday of our nation provides yet one more opportunity for “America’s Diva” Renée Fleming to demonstrate that she is indeed the Patti of our day.

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Happy Birthday Leopold Stokowski

stokowskiThe American conductor (about whom Wikipedia mildly says “There is some mystery surrounding his early life”) was born in London on April 18, 1882… or perhaps 1887. Or was it Pomerania in 1889? Read more »

Bright despair

renee_dance_floorOn this beautiful spring morning, La Cieca is delighted to announce to her cher public that she has uncovered yet another exclusive scoop.

For you listening enjoyment on this last day of March, we present the next single to drop from the most talked-about operatic disc since Karita Mattila‘s!

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Hun for all

Since Attila is in the forefront of our thoughts right now, and since the prima of the Met’s production won’t be broadcast, La Cieca thought it would be handy to have a Riccardo Muti performance of the Verdi work as a common point of reference. 

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Together again for the first time

When La Cieca’s wrong, she’s wrong. She really had no idea until today that Leontyne Price and Luciano Pavarotti shared the operatic stage any time besides that one-off Aida in San Francisco. But when confronted with proof in the form of an mp3, well, she’s going to be the first to admit her error.

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Left in the dust

A new production of Verdi’s Macbeth? At the Wiener Staatsoper? At a 192 Euro top? And this is what you get?

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wild beauty

From deep in the parterre cellar, a glimpse of a long ago Met Hoffmann.

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Bella

Colombetta, Colombetta, Apri l’uscio, non farmi penar Del balcon solleva il velo Apri amor se no qui gelo Colombetta, Colombetta, Arlecchino gelando si sta.

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