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  • tannengrin: Maybe the voting on ‘Ballo’ ; got blog-trolled, or whatever the correct terminus technicus... 8:40 AM
  • Buster: By the time I saw Zampieri, she could only cackle out of rhythm. The loudness was still there, though, but... 8:26 AM
  • Superconductor: Sure, the Lepage Ring makes an easy (and moving) target but here are five shows that (in this... 8:24 AM
  • 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

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The naked and the dead

by | 7:03 pm | Dec 22, 2012

The controversial production of La traviata from La Monnaie directed by Andrea Breth is now available for viewing online. Embedded video (NSFW, contains nudity and other adult-type stuff) after the jump. Read more »

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Stocking stuffer

by | 2:51 pm | Nov 14, 2011

Randal Turner, pictured above, is but one of 33 barihunks featured in—who ever would have guessed?— “the first Barihunks calendar,” just in time for holiday giving and receiving. All proceeds from the calendar, available at the Barihunks site, will be donated to young artist programs. (Photo by Sarah Wells)

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Salo, me

by | 8:50 pm | Apr 23, 2011

David McVicar’s ravishingly lurid 2008 production of Strauss’s Salome for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden has been issued as an HD-filmed DVD from Opus Arte.  Now, Strauss’s music is ravishingly lurid on its own, so I came to this production, which claims as a visual source reference the Pasolini film Salo, The 120 Days of Sodom, with some trepidation about “ugly image overload.” Read more »

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A thousand words is worth a picture

by | 10:38 pm | Jul 29, 2010

You know how La Cieca gets when one of her darling Regie productions gets dissed sight unseen, as happened on these shores with last Sunday’s unveiling of the Hans Neuenfels Lohengrin at Bayreuth. (Not so much on this site, because La Cieca is happy to report that here at dear parterre.com all schools of opinion—even stupid ones—are given a full measure of respect.)

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Verklärte Nackt

by | 1:25 pm | Apr 29, 2010

Our Own JJ lends his voice to the debate about nudity in art this afternoon on WNYC’s Soundcheck. UPDATE: you can now listen to the show after the jump.

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Free Wilis

by | 9:48 am | Apr 29, 2010

Roberto Bolle dances Giselle au naturel. (Video after the jump, NSFW, naturally.)

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