La Cieca hears that Angela Meade, triumphant in this summer’s Semiramide at Caramoor, has been invited back there in 2010 for her first Norma. Other future dates include Les Vêpres siciliennes in Vienna and a return engagement at the Met in Ernani. On the bill at Caramoor for 2011: that grandest of all grand operas, Guilliame Tell.

Update:  Caramoor maestro Will “The Trill” Crutchfield just chimed in:

Semiramide was only a first hint of what this gal can do.  Everybody should come next year and hold me accountable if I’m wrong.  She hasn’t yet tapped her full capacities, but she will.