The results of the Repertory Poll are in! Squirrel asked which three Old Operas you would most like to see staged at the New New Met, and the people have spoken! Results after the jump.
In what La Cieca believes is the gayest photograph ever taken, Rufus Wainwright strikes a pose with Faye Dunaway on the red carpet at the Met’s opening night.
More heart-warming news from Women’s Wear Daily: Oscar de la Renta will not, after all, boycott the Met as he previously threatened. The designer had complained to the media that no American designer was included in the roster of designers creating frocks for Renée Fleming; in fact, de la Renta even toyed with the idea of canceling his annual donation to the opera company! Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed, with Met benefactress Mercedes Bass effecting a rapprochement.
“After all this brouhaha in the papers, he is here,” said Bass. “It was just a momentary thing — he was being protective of American designers.”
La Cieca is happy to inform her cher public (balletomanes all, surely) that aerodynamic Ãngel Corella will return to the Met this fall to enliven what otherwise will likely turn out to be some dullish performances of Ponchielli’s La gioconda. According to your doyenne’s informant, the coruscating Mr. Corella will grace the stage as premier danseur in “The Dance of the Hours” for four performances only, September 24th and 27th and October 2nd and 6th.
La Cieca hears that at least one of the ultracool ultraqueer world premieres scheduled for the Met is definitely off the bill.
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