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  • MontyNostry: I know there’s debate as to the true identity of Vinteuil, but I went to a concert of Fauré... 4:49 AM
  • Feldmarschallin: Yes Buster that was the first time ever that I heard someone say Leider sounded thin. Oh well to... 4:30 AM
  • shoegirl: It certainly was entertaining, but ultimately its typical of more recent Glyndebourne productions... 4:10 AM
  • Feldmarschallin: Nagelstad and she was incredible. Stemme only sang Gotterdammerung here. Dalayman and Herletzius... 3:57 AM
  • Buster: Frida Leider sounds anything but thin on the Tristan experts from the Met, issued by the Frida Leider... 3:57 AM
  • Buster: The Munich Siegfried had Naglestad, not? Just heard her Sieglinde in the tired old Audi Ring, splendid! 3:54 AM
  • Feldmarschallin: There are recordings of those singers singing that aria just not on youtube for me to post. I am... 3:40 AM
  • Feldmarschallin: It is not from the BSO. Maybe Wiener Staatsoper. 3:34 AM

And the 2013 Pubies go to…

One startling upset catches the eye among the many winners (if that is the word) of the 2013 Parterre Box Awards. Read more »

Plank your lucky stars

You Wagnerians out there (and you know who you are!) who are so busily either enjoying this season’s Ring cycle (or, perhaps, not so much) maybe be fascinated and/or appalled to hear that the next scheduled appearance of the Met’s production has been canceled, as irrevocably as these things can ever be. What we know, after the jump. Read more »

Headless nuns in starless cast

“The most sensuous sounds at the Met this week come from an opera with nary a love duet. In Dialogues des Carmélites—Francis Poulenc’s 1957 melodrama about an order of nuns martyred during the French Revolution—the music’s voluptuous sweetness depicts the sisters’ intense religious faith.” [New York Post]

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Constellation

Here, for the first time in 40 years, the CBS telecast of the April 21-22 gala honoring the retirement of Sir Rudolf Bing.

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Spin cycle

Your Wagnerian alternatives for today’s chat in La Casa della Cieca

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Dark side of the moon

Finally some video of Stefan Herheim‘s Salome production shows up on YouTube.

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The case of the missing vehicle

La Cieca’s sources tell her that a planned revival of Faust at the Met in the fall of 2014 has been canceled, because who wants to see that ugly thing again, or else the leading lady didn’t feel like singing it, whichever.

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Young man with a horn

Ring a ding ding! There’s a new Duke in town, and he’s jolting the Met’s Rigoletto with enough electricity to light up the Las Vegas Strip.

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