Headshot of La Cieca

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  • EdgardoNYC: The Ballo rightfully deserved to be named worst new production at the Met this past season. It was an... 11:19 AM
  • Batty Masetto: I’m wondering something along the same lines as Tannengrin myself. Not a conspiracy from... 11:15 AM
  • papopera: Been watching the situation in Moore OK all day on CNN. Real tragic. Looks like Dresden in 1945.... 11:15 AM
  • adina: They should have cut off the mike and let the audience continue the singing. 11:14 AM
  • Bianca Castafiore: marechala, que boca tan sucia tu tienes! 11:14 AM
  • Maury D: I love when people say things like “(running for cover)” to try to make their reactionary... 11:10 AM
  • Maury D: The direction of the singers is the biggest deal maybe, though I liked the whole thing. I’m a... 11:03 AM
  • antikitschychick: “That said, this production demonstrated the best performance these leads have given in... 11:01 AM

Is this the happy couple?

Renee Fleming and Timothy Jessell arrive for the formal artist’s dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors at the United States Department of State December 4, 2010 in Washington, D.C.”

More (circumstantial) proof after the jump. Read more »

Did Cecilia Bartoli get married?

bartoli_weddingOpera Chic reported a couple of days ago that “[t]he Italian mezzo married her longtime boyfriend, big buff Swiss bass-baritone, Oliver Widmer. However, there is no official confirmation of the nuptials, and a closer reading of the Chic’s purported source for the news suggests that Bartoli and her beau are “just good friends,” as we gossips used to say back in the day of tougher libel laws.

But more to the point, what the hell is La Cieca supposed to do now with that gift-wrapped blender?