Bloomberg’s Zinta Lundborg, best known for sharing a single eye and a single tooth with Manuela Hoelterhoff, overlooked the opera on Wednesday night and instead reviewed the PR for Dark Sisters. When a man writes like this, we call it “bitchy,” so when a woman does it, can’t we call her “dickish?”  
Well, anyway, the dickish Lundborg certainly does have a good deal of PR to snipe at: for example, this stomach-churning coverage of the opera’s opening night in the Wall Street Journal, all Kanye West, Kiehl’s and Isaac Mizrahi. And, next time, maybe the WSJ’s photographer could remember to recharge her flash? The afterparty looks like it was thrown at Minnie and Roman Castevet’s apartment in the Bramford.

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.

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