La Cieca’s spy at least night’s performance of La Fille du Régiment assures her that, yes, indeed, Juan Diego Florèz did take a “bis” of his first act cabaletta. “Tonight the ovation was far longer and louder than before (perhaps for fear of getting short-shrift as the old folks on Saturday did), and the encore was again followed by a big noise, standing,” the eyewitness at the Met reports. The “bisometer” score therefore stands at 2 encores per perfomances or .667.
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