La Cieca wants to reassure her cher public that she has neither fallen off the face of the earth nor succumbed to that mysterious illness that’s killing all the bloggers. The last few days have been something of a slow news period for opera gossip and your doyenne has taken advantage of that fact by retiring to her boudoir and catching up on beauty sleep.

Our JJ will make the trek from Sunnyside this weekend to witness Satyagraha and Edgar, and Milton Host promises he will nag me into publishing the overdue episode of Unnatural Acts of Opera in some sort of timely manner. (We’ll try for this evening, but sometimes even Milton’s most insistent prodding cannot rouse La Cieca from her lethargy.)