La Cieca is delighted to begin a new series on parterre.com dedicated to the fretting, brooding and dithering of the Wazier of the Worriers, Anthony Tommasini. Our first examples (of many) follow the jump. Read more »
“It is easy to understand why Mr. Muti admires Mr. Abdrazakov, his young, imposing Attila.” [NYT]
Ordinarily La Cieca bestows the Wildean accolade upon a local cher pube. This time, though, she cannot resist praising one of the commentariat at Unpop!, Daniel Stephen Johnson’s new project over at the New Haven Advocate. Read more »
"Maybe this bold staging was a little overwrought. But when you have Ms. Garanca as Carmen, why not?" Anthony Tommasini offers an object lesson in the art of Criticism as Starfucking. Read more »
Enjoy your mockery while you can, cher public. The New York Times has decided they are going to start charging for content "in early 2011." So, in a year or so, you won't have Tony Tommasini to kick around any more. Read more »
"And the news of this revival of Franco Zeffirelli’s opulent production continues to be the exciting work of the young Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, who searches out the modernist touches in Puccini’s final work." [NYT]
"I will have more to say on this question later." So, three weeks ago, Anthony Tommasini left open the subject of how "[n]one of the versions of [Les Contes d'Hoffmann] that have appeared over the years, some of them corrupted, can be said to be authentic." The Times scribe has at last broken his silence, though La Cieca will leave it up to the reader to decide whether he actually has "more to say." [NYT]
"...Mr. Sher may have done too much analysis of the work’s psychological subtexts." [NYT]
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