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The eventually reopened Metropolitan Opera promises a swift return to its status quo ante as a farm team for the English National Opera, sharing the London company’s new Ring cycle directed by vieillard terrible Richard Jones.
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The Met Orchestra will stream a concert including the virtual participation of Angela Gheorghiu live from Bucharest.
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The Met is instituting a lockout of its Local One–represented employees (stagehands), effective at midnight tonight.
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“The Met Stars Live in Concert performance featuring soprano Sonya Yoncheva, which was rescheduled for this Saturday, November 28, has now been moved to Saturday, February 27, 2021, as Ms. Yoncheva is still ill (with a non-Covid illness).” Thus speaks the Met’s press department.
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“Pèlerin Deslieux had arrived to escort her to Carnegie Hall. They would walk over together. ‘There’s a queue from here to there!’ he told her.”
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The Met will be dark for more than a year, until the fall of 2021.
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The Met settled with disgraced former music director James Levine for a cool $3.5 million.
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Tonight’s performance of Don Carlo at the Bolshoi Opera has been canceled because bass Ildar Abdrazakov has tested positive for COVID-19.
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La Cieca has heard that Columbia Artists Management Inc. will cease operations on Monday, August 31.
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New York City Opera (remember them?) have announced a program for spring 2021, with repertoire consistent with the company’s recent policy of equal-opportunity pandering.
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The Teatro San Carlo di Napoli’s lavish outdoor concert series continues with Aida featuring Jonas Kaufmann and Anita Rachvelishvili.
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Stay tuned as La Cieca attends this Zoom press conference with Peter Gelb and special guest zoomers.
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James Levine is back, or at least is scheduled to be back!
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