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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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  • Bill: Willym – the critics say 5 hours – apparently Bartoli sang all 8 of Cleopatra’s arias and... 1:55 PM
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Intermission feature, week of June 26

For you, cher public (pictured), your weekly off-topic general discussion thread.

Intermission feature, week of June 19

For you, cher public (pictured), your weekly off-topic general discussion thread.

other than that, mr. lincoln

La Cieca is naturally drawn to a headline reading “Upheaval at the Opera House” as bees to honey or ugly to a bear. Imagine her surprise, then, when the titular upheaval has nothing to do with Dallas Opera, the New York City Opera, La Scala, or even the Met. So far as she can make out from an article so insidery as to border on the oracular, some renovations are afoot at Disneyland that will change the configuration of the “Old Opera House” attraction in the Main Street area of the celebrated theme park. Under consideration is the return of the campy “animatronic” Abraham Lincoln who for many years graced the stage of the Old Opera House. Mr. Lincoln is, as you may know, hotter now that he has been for many a year, what with being the role model for President Obama and, skedded for a 2011 release, a biopic of the Great Emancipator directed by Stephen Spielberg and starring Liam Neeson.

Okay, La Cieca admits this posting is very light indeed in operatic content. But that word “upheaval” just lights a fire in her, that’s all.