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Cher Public

  • CarlottaBorromeo: The Dove reduction was for 18 players (and 12 singers). But it was intended for performance in... 7:58 AM
  • Cocky Kurwenal: Point is, I don’t think the curiosity factor impacts much on ticket sales (if anything I... 7:18 AM
  • Hippolyte: Your Penelope, Anna Caterina Antonacci, will be returning to NYC, it was announced yesterday. She will... 6:56 AM
  • Feldmarschallin: Now a few more pics of the Trovatore especially for FragendeFrau: http://www.baye... 6:54 AM
  • Henry Holland: Wow, when two Pasatieri pieces, La Roi de Lahore, the simplified version of Levy’s Mourning... 5:05 AM
  • Bosah: The problem is that, more often than not, “classical music” on PBS means “popera.R 21;... 4:12 AM
  • Buster: Opera South did the first Bieito opera staging ever: Il Monde delle Luna – really bad, not becasue... 2:24 AM
  • m. croche: Let’s just say that Lang was being a bit diplomatic. 2:15 AM

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Cher public, La Cieca must inform you that the president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Michael Kaiser (right), is afraid of you (left). “This is a scary trend,”  says he. [via Huffington Post, of all places to climb on your soapbox about "serious arts criticism."]