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  • Baltsamic Vinaigrette: shoegirl, did you pop along to the 600-seater RDS Library on Sunday evening to see the Met... 6:16 AM
  • Buster: Thanks, glad you got in without problems. 6:10 AM
  • manou: The museum was wonderful, ant not too crowded (except for the Night Watch watchers and the Vermeer... 5:39 AM
  • Buster: Glad you enjoyed it Manou! Doris Soffel sang Fricka in an earlier run too, alternating with the very... 5:27 AM
  • Buster: Leider made the stupid mistake to die. Listening to zombies is so uncool. 5:10 AM
  • manou: Bianca – I think this is the La Scala Barenboim Ring. Buster – yes, Naglestad was the best... 5:08 AM
  • Buster: Thanks! She is doing a few Siegfried Brünnhildes here next season before Catherine Foster takes over. I... 5:08 AM
  • DeCaffarrelli: Rather than argue the effectiveness of the McVicar Giulio Cesare production, I’ll simply say... 5:05 AM

The lady in question

… is Anna Netrebko, performing “Vieni, t’affretta” from Verdi’s Macbeth at tonight’s opening gala at the Mariinsky. Read more »

First sip

UPDATE: A video preview of the new Elisir follows the jump. La Cieca’s spy reports: “Bartlett Sher‘s warm and winning new production of Donizetti’s L‘Elisir d’Amore was presented at today’s annual Opening Night free public dress rehearsal. Read more »

Suppose they gave a Ring and no one came

For whatever reason (Absence of James Levine? Incompetence of Robert LePage? The economy? Clumsy scheduling? Wagner overload?), next season’s Ring cycle at the Met doesn’t seem to be selling. What La Cieca means by “doesn’t seem” she will define after the jump. Read more »

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Recovered girl

Here’s a bit of good news for all you Traviata fans with tickets for tomorrow night’s Met performance or Saturday afternoon’s HD.

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A three hour tour

After today’s Met dress rehearsal of The Enchanted Island, La Cieca’s spy (pictured) reports: “You would think that if they had the entire Baroque canon to mine, they would’ve chosen music that wasn’t slow, dull, and long.  In Peter Gelb‘s opening remarks, he called it ‘the Met’s Baroque Coming Out party,’ which makes me think this entire endeavor was to introduce new audiences to Baroque opera—and if that’s the case, they chose a poor way of trying to win them over.”

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Island of lost moles

La Cieca has just heard that 800 tickets for the public dress rehearsal of the Met’s new Enchanted Island production will be distributed starting at noon tomorrow. The rehearsal will be Wednesday, December 28 at 10:30am, and naturally your doyenne encourages spies, agents, operatives, sleuths, snoops, spooks and spotters to attend this sneak preview and to share all the juicy details with the cher public. The Met’s website has more details.

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Juan down

Barihunk Mariusz Kwiecien injured his handsome back during today’s dress rehearsal of Don Giovanni at the Met and was taken to the hospital, tweets Dan Wakin. As La Cieca writes this, Kwiecien’s cover Dwayne Croft is at the Met rehearsing the opera’s first act swordfight.  

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Donizetti queens report

Today is the dress rehearsal/preview of Anna Bolena at the Met, and naturally La Cieca has infiltrated the event with a veritable phalanx of spies. After the jump: all your latest Anna Netrebko related news.

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