La Cieca must say that, for a chick, Katharina Wagner sure doesn’t talk much. But perhaps her reticence is something of a blessing, since it prevents her from spouting such facile generalizations as “…’Die Meistersinger,’ Hitler’s favorite Wagner opera.” Read more »
“Her gal-pal friends play with what look like the tails of exotic serpents and keep huge spiders as pets. I was not exactly sure what this all meant. Still, the kids squealed with delight.” No more delighted than La Cieca was when she realized that Katharina Wagner has finally caught up to Mary Zimmerman in the use of oversized arachnidae in operatic Regie! [NY Times]
“A tousle-haired and radiant young man called Ein Gast… appears” [NY Times]
See, La Cieca thinks Brian Kellow is asking for trouble when, in the second paragraph of his analysis of last March's Slatkinshchina, he admits, "I did not attend the March 29 opening-night performance of La Traviata, nor did I listen to it on Sirius Radio." Read more »
"Exciting! Indomitable! Alluring! Rigid! Enormous! Pulsing! Penetrating! Riveting! The public shame of being flogged! Aching tenderness!" [NYT]
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 »
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