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In what will surely be a highlight of the 2008-2009 musical season here in Gotham, mean, moody, magnificent (and blogorific!) Aprile Millo is set to perform the title role in Cherubini’s Medée with Opera Orchestra of New York under the baton of Eve Queler. Other presentations in the concert company’s repertoire do not perhaps set the heart to racing quite so as this moment of Milloiana. We are promised The Tsar’s Bride (yet again) with Olga Borodina as well as OONY’s seemingly biennial revival of Rienzi, this time with Kirov heldentenor Leonid Zakhozhaev and (as Irene, or Adriano?) Lauren Flanigan.

Opera Orchestra’s 2007-2008 season finale, Puccini’s Edgar, hits the boards at Carnegie Hall this Sunday at 8:00 p.m., with Latonia Moore,  Jennifer Larmore, Marcello Giordani and Stephen Gaertner heading the cast.

La Cieca

James Jorden (who wrote under the names "La Cieca" and "Our Own JJ") was the founder and editor of parterre box. During his 20 year career as an opera critic he wrote for the New York Times, Opera, Gay City News, Opera Now, Musical America and the New York Post. He also raised his voice in punditry on National Public Radio. From time to time he directed opera, including three unsuccessful productions of Don Giovanni. He also contributed a regular column on opera for the New York Observer. James died in October 2023.

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