Future events such as these will affect you in the future

By La Cieca

February 2, 2011

All this talk about girls and ladies prompted La Cieca to turn (not for the first time!) to Brad Wilber’s Met Futures Page, freshly updated just a couple of days ago. So detailed and fascinating is Brad’s vision of the future that La Cieca is inspired to invite the cher public to play a little game.

La Cieca invites you to peruse Brad’s prognostications for the Met’s 2011-2012 season and then to exercise your own powers of prescience. In the comments section below, answer (with explanation) each of the following questions:

Which event next season is most likely to be judged “demented?”
Which event next season is most likely to be judged “filth?”
Which casting (role/artist) is the season’s “must see?”
Which casting (role/artist) is the season’s “must miss?”
If you could add one opera or artist to next season’s schedule, what would it be?
If you could subtract one opera or artist from next season’s schedule, which would it be?

There’s an Amazon gift card in the balance, cher public, and as usual La Cieca’s judgment is final and irrevocable.

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.