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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.
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.
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.
The Teatro San Carlo di Napoli’s lavish outdoor concert series continues with Aida featuring Jonas Kaufmann and Anita Rachvelishvili.
Stay tuned as La Cieca attends this Zoom press conference with Peter Gelb and special guest zoomers.
James Levine is back, or at least is scheduled to be back!
Opening tonight at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a staged but socially distanced version of La traviata.
This series of concerts offered role debuts (of a kind) for Anna Netrebko as Elisabetta and Yusif Eyvazov as Carlo.
San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago have announced the cancellation of their respective 2020 fall seasons.
The Metropolitan Opera is heading for a very rocky couple of years.
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