La Cieca shouldn’t make fun of amazon.com, because, after all, amazon.com is a major sponsor of this site. But still, even a Benevolent Corporate Overlord goofs every now and again.

You probably know that for most CDs amazon sells, the web site offers a section of brief audio previews of each track. Very handy, especially in the case of a new release of an archival performance of Un ballo in maschera. An idiomatic conductor (Francesco Molinari-Pradelli) and a strong cast (José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Renato Bruson), to be sure — but the real attraction here is what appears to be an interpolated hip-hop sequence during the Ulrica scene:

And people call Calixto Bieito “innovative!” Ha!