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  • einfreund: YNS played Siegfried Idyll in Philly this season. I caught the one interpolated into the program on the... 7:11 PM
  • Camille: Tristan und Isolde was better than Demerol, he said! Apparently Baudelaire on his deahbed was only... 7:05 PM
  • marshiemarkII: OK caro I think this will be along conversation so we will start in sections, and I’ll start... 6:53 PM
  • Henry Holland: I love Boulez’ music, it’s a shame that we’re likely not going to get his long... 6:51 PM
  • Hippolyte: I voted in the Pubies for the McVicar Cesare as the worst MET new production of the season. 6:48 PM
  • Will: Let me get this straight, The MET produced Handel’s Giulio Cesare as a “polished, yet vapid... 6:28 PM
  • Sanford: Nicholas is so talented and is really building up steam in his career. And he’s a nice as he is... 6:28 PM
  • Baltsamic Vinaigrette: And there we have it: at last the Met employs a Frenchie, and still they get it in the neck! 6:11 PM

Teen spirit

Now that the Met’s 2013-2014 season has been published and almost immediately discussed to death, La Cieca thought it would be amusing to do a bit of speculation about what lies ahead as we approach the middle of the decade. An assemblage of gossip and guesswork about the 2014-2015 season follows the jump, and won’t it be fun to look back on this post next February when the official announcement is made? Read more »

Pay attention to the man behind the curtain

UPDATE: Here are the Met’s 2013-2014 season press release and digital brochure. Read more »

Swiss you were here

The Pierre Audi production of Guillaume Tell has opened at De Nederlandse Opera, and the staging (destined for the Met* circa 2018) has been pronounced a “triumphant success.” There’s a glimpse of the show after the jump. Read more »

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Somewhere there’s a blu-ray of happiness

The 2012 Bayreuth production of Parsifal directed by Stefan Herheim will be released on Blu-ray and DVD by Opus Arte in April 2013.

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Transparency

Opera Teen (pictured, second from left) is not kidding us: he had an interview with Peter Gelb.

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Anna macchia è qui tuttora

It’s confirmed!

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Our retrospection will now be all to the future

La Cieca predicts you won’t be seeing any puritans at the Met next season, except of course for the ones who slouch around during intermission hissing, “You call that a trill?”

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Scent of mystery

La Cieca has been sniffing around her generally reliable (and fragrant) sources, and she thinks she has pieced together a list of the dozen operas to be featured in the 2013-2014 season of “The Met: Live in HD.”

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