La Cieca unfortunately has been offweb since just before the announcement was made that Giuseppe Filianoti would be jumping in to tonight’s Met Lucia.  (According to the Met’s press release, incidentally, “Mr. Villazón is still scheduled to sing Edgardo on February 7 matinee.”)

Anyway, as Providence would have it, La Cieca has one of her most trusted spies in the theater tonight and so tomorrow we shall hear all about it. As she types these uneasy words, your doyenne is listening to the cabaletta of the Wolf’s Crag duet, and in the few minutes she’s heard so far, it seems obvious that Filianoti is in better form than we have heard from Villazón in the earlier two performances.