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Yannick Nézet-Seguin conducts Ryan McKinny, Joyce DiDonato, Latonia Moore, and Susan Graham in the season opening night and Metropolitan Opera Premiere of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking.
Oh, what more delightful headline can be imagined? Well, perhaps “Florida free-fall sends Giuliani from hero to zero” — that’s great news too. But back to important matters. Did La Cieca mention that for his current stint in Dead Man Walking The Teddster has shaved his head?
La Cieca has Maury D’annato to thank for (passively) calling her attention to the blog The Opera Tattler, which in recent days has been detailing next season’s plans in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other opera companies of the Transhudson. (The) Opera Tattler also reviews a lot of West Coast opera, and at least so…
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Here’s Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Don Giovanni at Opera Australia. La Cieca is, for once, speechless. UPDATE: Imagine La Cieca’s surprise when she found out there is already video of this production!
Yet another rehash of the great voice vs. waistline debate, this time in the Chicago Daily Herald. Nicole Cabell laments the scarcity of European gyms, while “hunken-tenor” Joseph Kaiser plants his feet firmly on both sides of the fence by declaring, “Essentially if you can be healthy about being healthy, that’s the balance to find…
More photos of Erwin Schrott and (by the way) a story about the Washington National Opera’s new production of Don Giovanni at PlaybillArts. (A Don G. this hot may well transform DC to AC!)
Reactions to last night’s Figaro prima? Anyone?
Maury D’annato: “Isn’t there probably some sort of unspoken crypto-paleo-musico-semantic rule governing that baritone=top and tenor=bottom?”
Broadcasts
- Wednesday, October 11 at 7:25PM: Nabucco
- Wednesday, October 18 at 6:55PM: Dead Man Walking
- Friday, October 20 at 7:55PM: Un Ballo in Maschera
- Wednesday, October 25 at 7:25PM: La Bohème
- Friday, October 27 at 7:55PM: Un Ballo in Maschera
- Wednesday, November 01 at 7:25PM: La Bohème
- Friday, November 03 at 6:55PM: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
- Wednesday, November 08 at 7:25PM: Un Ballo in Maschera
- Friday, November 10 at 7:25PM: La Bohème
- Tuesday, November 14 at 7:25PM: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
- Thursday, November 16 at 7:55PM: Florencia en el Amazonas
- Tuesday, November 21 at 7:25PM: La Bohème
- Friday, November 24 at 7:55PM: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
- Monday, November 27 at 7:55PM: Florencia en el Amazonas
- Thursday, November 30 at 6:55PM: Tannhäuser
- Friday, December 08 at 6:55PM: The Magic Flute—Holiday Presentation
- Saturday, December 09 at 12:55PM: Florencia en el Amazonas
- Tuesday, December 12 at 6:55PM: Tannhäuser
- Saturday, December 16 at 11:55AM: The Magic Flute—Holiday Presentation
- Thursday, December 21 at 7:25PM: The Magic Flute—Holiday Presentation
- Saturday, December 23 at 12:55PM: Tannhäuser
- Friday, December 29 at 6:55PM: Nabucco
- Wednesday, January 03 at 7:25PM: Carmen
- Saturday, January 06 at 12:55PM: Nabucco
- Thursday, January 11 at 6:55PM: Madama Butterfly
- Saturday, January 13 at 12:25PM: La Bohème
- Tuesday, January 16 at 7:25PM: Carmen
- Wednesday, January 24 at 7:55PM: Madama Butterfly
- Saturday, January 27 at 12:55PM: Carmen
- Saturday, March 2 at 1:30 PM: Ernani
- Thursday, March 7 at 7 PM: Roméo et Juliette
- Saturday, March 9 at 12 PM: La forza del destino
- Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 PM: Madama Butterfly
- Saturday, March 16 at 12 PM: Turandot
- Sunday, March 17 at 3:00 PM: Laffont Competition Finals
- Saturday, March 23 at 1:30 PM: Roméo et Juliette
- Tuesday, March 26 at 7:00PM: La rondine
- Saturday, March 30 at 1:30 PM: Verdi: Requiem
- Tuesday, April 2 at 7:30 PM: La rondine
- Saturday, April 6 at 1:30 PM: L’Elisir d’amore
- Monday, April 8 at 7:00 PM: Fire Shut Up in my Bones
- Saturday, April 13 at 1:30 PM: Die Fledermaus
- Friday, April 19 at 7:30 PM: Turandot
- Saturday, April 20 at 1:30 PM: La rondine
- Tuesday, April 23 at 8:00 PM: El Niño
- Saturday, April 27 at 1:30 PM: Fire Shut Up in my Bones
- Tuesday, April 30 at 7:30 PM: Madama Butterfly
- Saturday, May 4 at 1:30 PM: El Niño
- Friday, May 10 at 7:30 PM: The Hours
- Saturday, May 11 at 1:30 PM: Madama Butterfly
- Thursday, May 16 at 7:30 PM: Orfeo ed Euridice
- Saturday, May 18 at 1:30 PM: The Hours
- Wednesday, May 22 at 7:00 PM: Carmen
- Saturday, May 25 at 1:30 PM: La fanciulla del west
- Tuesday, May 28 at 7:00 PM: The Hours
- Saturday, June 1 at 1:30 PM: Cinderella
- Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30 PM: Turandot
- Saturday, June 8 at 1:30 PM: Orfeo ed Euridice
Teddy Tahu Rhodes stars in the first Australian production of Dead Man Walking. To which La Cieca can only respond, “Nathan Who?”
The Met’s star-crossed revival of Roméo et Juliette has just hit another bump. Nathan Gunn, announced for Mercutio, has dropped out of the September and October performances of the opera due to illness. Jumping in will be baryhunque Stéphane Degout, who performed Mercutio in this production back in 2005. Gunn is still on the cast…
UPDATE: A source at Opera Colorado informs La Cieca that there is in fact no exodus currently in progress from the company’s costume shop. La Cieca apologizes for the confusion. Earlier, La Cieca reported that her “mile-high informant” whispered that “Colorado Opera’s entire costume department just quit in a huff. Or was fired in a…
Which one of these things is not like the others? [Nathan] Gunn is part of a new generation of performers, including Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, British soprano Kate Royal and Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez, who have helped fuel a debate about the physical attributes of opera singers. Once again, La Cieca’s Rule of Journalistic…
Interesting choice of words in this PlaybillArts headline: Nathan Gunn Pulls Out of Billy Budd in Pittsburgh