Headshot of La Cieca

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  • MontyNostry: “Deux C” presumably? 4:38 PM
  • oedipe: You have to pronounce “2C” in French… 4:38 PM
  • alejandro: I keep praying Dessay learns some Spanish and is cast in an Almodovar film! 4:34 PM
  • marshiemarkII: Oedipe, yes you obviously have more data points than I do. I guess I was really really lucky then,... 4:31 PM
  • oedipe: I’d rather call it career management. She is no longer in her prime and with roles like these she... 4:30 PM
  • oedipe: Marshie, Count me among those who consider Dessay (“2C”, French people call her) a great -and... 4:18 PM
  • MontyNostry: Daring, maybe, but also quite crafty in taking on roles in relatively obscure operas in which she... 4:02 PM
  • Camille: In case the young’ens don’t know what we all are talkin’ about: The immortal ”... 3:55 PM

The singing dead

“Somehow with opera, just as with theatre, it turns out that the monster’s head still hasn’t been cut off. Or else, like any monster worthy of the name, it keeps finding ways to rise from the grave.” Occasional friend of the box Joseph Cermatori offers an obituary of sorts for opera in New York in 2011-2012 in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art.