La Cieca (not pictured) dons her “early adopter” hat once again as she prepares to watch the live telecast of Lohengrin from the Bayreuth Festival on Sunday. It’s an online pay-per-view event (a ticket is €14.90), though the presenters promise it can alternatively be watched “on demand at a time of your own choice between the 15th and 30th of August 2011.”

The production—which Alex Ross in The New Yorker called “an austere, elegant, darkly enchanting piece of theatre”—kicks off at 16:00 at Bayreuth, which translates to 10:00 AM here in New York.  La Cieca will open the chatroom for discussion during the customary lengthy Green Hill intermissions.