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  • louannd: Thank you La C for posting the link to Mr. Madison’s blog. A new discovery for me, and another... 2:38 PM
  • 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
  • oedipe: Willym, I don’t know, but I am willing to give Ceci the benefit of the doubt. At any rate, this is a... 2:06 PM
  • Bill: Willym – the critics say 5 hours – apparently Bartoli sang all 8 of Cleopatra’s arias and... 1:55 PM
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From Hell

“About the only good thing that can be said for New York City Opera’s Orpheus, which opened Saturday night, is that it made the rest of the company’s feeble season seem scintillating by comparison.” [New York Post]

Billy in the doldrums

“This Billy Budd would have worked better with a stronger set of singers. Nathan Gunn, sporting a lank blond wig and puffy shirt, looked more surfer than savior. Worse, his baritone sounded small and distant.” [New York Post]

Teen dream

“Some days you can feel like a hero just getting out of bed in the morning. That’s the message of Gotham Chamber Opera’s delightful production of Il Sogno di Scipione, which opened Wednesday.” [New York Post]

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Starless night

An understudy saved the show at the Met’s La Traviata Friday night, but no star was born.

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Geherheimnis

“Since no opera company in the U.S. has quite got up the courage to present a Herheim production, this webcast offers us a chance to sample this director’s unique style of Regie.”

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The party’s over

When the hard-partying heroine of Massenet’s Manon hits bottom, she literally lands in the gutter.

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Boy meets ghoul

Now New York City Opera has given us a “Così Fan Tutte” starring the undead.

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Lady of the Fake

When Verdi’s Macbeth returned to the Met Thursday night, miscasting doomed the revival as surely as any witch’s curse.

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