An opening for a princess
Jamie Barton will sing Eboli in the Met’s new production of the original five-act French version of Verdi’s Don Carlos, replacing Elina Garanca, who has withdrawn.
Breaking
Well, maybe next year
For a number of reasons including a surge in COVID cases, PROTOTYPE Festival has canceled its Winter 2022 season.
Rigoletto
A gala new production of Verdi’s opera, live from the Met.
Met, Orchestra reach agreement
A new collective bargaining agreement between the Metropolitan Opera and its orchestra, the last of the Met’s three largest unions to reach an agreement, was ratified today.
While you were sleeping
Jennifer Hudson “honors” Aretha Franklin by singing “Nessun dorma.”
Diane Zola departs
La Cieca has received a copy of a message, apparently from the Metropolitan Opera, announcing the departure of Diane Zola from the company.
Together again for the first time
At long last the plans for the Met’s 2017 New Year’s Eve Gala are to be realized.
‘Cries’ baby
Should the new John Corigliano / Mark Adamo opera The Lord of Cries be renamed The Lord of Crisis?
Soft opening
As the Met gears up for its first performances in a year and a half. the company is already canceling shows in the early fall.
Dragoon race
Jamie Barton makes her highly-anticipated debut as Carmen opposite the legendary Stephanie Blythe as her alter ego Blythely Oratonio. As Don José!
Color Me Karita
Superstar diva on Twitter and everywhere else Karita Mattila has just unveiled her next project!
Who wants to ‘Live’ forever?
The Metropolitan Opera announces two further concerts in the Met Stars Live in Concert series.
Our god is an awesome god
Our Own Henson Keys will make his opera debut in the role of Wotan in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Twilight: Gods, directed by Yuval Sharon and starring Christine Goerke.
The skills to pay the bills
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra has accepted a deal to receive bridge pay in return for returning to the bargaining table.
Put a ‘Ring’ on it
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.
Remote control
The Met Orchestra will stream a concert including the virtual participation of Angela Gheorghiu live from Bucharest.
Lockout!
The Met is instituting a lockout of its Local One–represented employees (stagehands), effective at midnight tonight.
Sonya or later
“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.
Monster recital sacré
“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.”
Met cancels spring season
The Met will be dark for more than a year, until the fall of 2021.
Take the money and run
The Met settled with disgraced former music director James Levine for a cool $3.5 million.
Infection
Tonight’s performance of Don Carlo at the Bolshoi Opera has been canceled because bass Ildar Abdrazakov has tested positive for COVID-19.
The end of Columbia Artists
La Cieca has heard that Columbia Artists Management Inc. will cease operations on Monday, August 31.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
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