Dimitra Theodossiou “takes” a high E-flat at the end of Odabella’s cabaletta.
Three seasons of cancellations, a schlocky “reality” show, that haircut, and now… Rolando Villazón has gone full “Dr. Patch.” [Yahoo News] Read more »
You know, La Cieca lived through the 1980s, just barely, and then imagine her surprise when, midway through the 2000s, there was a revival of all that 80s stuff — shoulder pads, leggings, big hair, glitter. All of it. Well, no, not quite all of it. There was one trend of the 1980s whose revival we were mercifully spared. Until just now.
It took the Metropolitan Opera decades to catch up with the rest of the world and finally stage La Cenerentola. Gioachino Rossini’s opera buffa, one of his most beloved and accomplished works, received its belated Met debut in 1997, amidst legitimate suspicions that the new production was less a genuine desire to add a belcanto masterpiece to the company’s repertoire than a concession to Cecilia Bartoli’s demands. Since then the production has been revived several times with galaxy of international mezzo-sopranos such as Jennifer Larmore, Sonia Ganassi, Olga Borodina and, just this past season, superstar Elina Garanca. Read more »
She Who Has More Sobriquets Than Changes of Facial Expression continues her second half-century. Read more »
The legendary Russian mezzo-soprano has died after a brief illness. She was 85. Read more »
La Cieca's old, old, old friend Dorothy Bishop has revived and revised her hilarious Sarah Palin show, now entitled "A Sarah Palin Presidents' Day Spectacular," Thursdays in February beginning the 11th at NYC's Cafe Iguana. Read more »
The "Voice of an Angel" was born February 1, 1922. Read more »
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