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  • papopera: Saw that when I was a young kid and even then found it inane. Typical Hollywood garbage. Did they eat... 8:49 PM
  • DonCarloFanatic: I am not familiar with the Schiller, although I have seen the play once, and it was in English.... 7:28 PM
  • DonCarloFanatic: I was just going to mention that the auto da fe music is the only happy music in this opera. No... 7:25 PM
  • oedipe: The slower increase of expenses, rather… 6:28 PM
  • oedipe: That’s what it looks like, Batty, but the net margin is still low (about 4%). Also, the net income... 6:08 PM
  • FragendeFrau82: Wow, all 4 performances! Hut ab! and enjoy! 6:01 PM
  • grimoaldo: One of Verdi’s favourite “tricks̶ 1; is to send characters to their deaths with... 5:55 PM
  • ianw2: The less time he has, too, to write another skidmark of an opera. 5:50 PM

Separated in alt

“That high E-natural must be up there somewhere,” these two ladies seem to be saying in unison: Voice of the Century Joan Sutherland and Voice of the Xtabay Yma Sumac.   Read more »

This beaver looks like that beaver

renata_johnnySeparated at birth: “Tu che di gel” goddess Renata Scotto and “Too much hair gel” oddness Johnny Weir. This is also holiday-themed breaking news because Johnny has now officially donned his gay apparel. [After Elton]

Throne for a loss

netrebko_didonatoAs we all already know (those of us addicted to Brad Wilber‘s Met Futures, and who among us is not?) the Metropolitan Opera already has plans to produce two operas of Donizetti’s so-called “Tudor Trilogy.”  Anna Bolena opens the 2011-2012 season featuring Anna Netrebko (left) and Maria Stuarda follows on the following season starring Joyce DiDonato, and isn’t La Cieca clever to find photos of these two artists in garb suggesting these as-yet unsung heroines? Read more »

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Vereint sind Liebe und Lens

The title of this site says it all: Fotografie orribili di cantanti.

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This Gillian looks like that girl

Forget all the others: we’ve found our Anne Welles! [Opera News]

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Separated after midnight

Country wailer Patsy Cline and ex-farmgirl Birgit Nilsson. 

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Cocktails for two

Two minds with but a single frock: Marina Poplavskaya in the Met’s new Traviata (due December 31) and Emma Watson in the November 19 release Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

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The law of diminishing divas

La Cieca invites the cher public to act as blue-ribbon panel in selecting the singers to be included in the “Greatest Diva” study.  Voting after the jump. 

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