Cher public, that’s the headline on a Bloomberg News interview with Our Renée, and first of all La Cieca will thank the news service for supplying us with such ready-made comic material.

La Fleming indeed is to be the headliner at an opera ball in Kazakhstan, and, yes, she credits her current svelte silhouette to Pilates. About the only other factoid of any consequence the diva lets slip to Manuela Hoelterhoff is that she used to ride horses as a child, an experience that prepared her for facing the audience at La Scala.