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  • Pisa Hearn: I caught “Tosca” ; at the Vienna State Opera on Friday, May 17, and I can report that... 10:19 AM
  • grimoaldo: “how does the “original version” of In fermen Land differ from what we normally hear... 10:17 AM
  • Buster: Did not see, nor hear, a single Met performance this year, so I did not vote myself. 10:00 AM
  • zinka: GRAZIE..I was beginning to think I was a jerk….(Don&# 8217;t answer that!!!~) 9:53 AM
  • DonCarloFanatic: No. Absolutely not. Still cringing at that Faust, and the Don Carlo just seems wrong, wrong,... 9:52 AM
  • A. Poggia Turra: Here is the program listing for today’s Wagner 200 concert from the Semperoper:... 9:52 AM
  • zinka: Thanks for the comment..Good to know other people hear this overrated,vibrato- less singer…She is not... 9:52 AM
  • DonCarloFanatic: But Buster, if you haven’t seen the performance, then you’re judging it only on the... 9:51 AM

The burning Ghars, or Ghats, or whatever they are

Lots of chatter in the British press about the Rowley rowdydow at the Garden, but what interests La Cieca the most is the pictorial evidence that Laurent Pelly‘s production of Robert le Diable looks exactly like a biscuit box.