Breaking
NYCO, yet again?
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.
It started in Naples
The Teatro San Carlo di Napoli’s lavish outdoor concert series continues with Aida featuring Jonas Kaufmann and Anita Rachvelishvili.
Press conference at the Met
Stay tuned as La Cieca attends this Zoom press conference with Peter Gelb and special guest zoomers.
Never can say goodbye
James Levine is back, or at least is scheduled to be back!
Going the distance
Opening tonight at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a staged but socially distanced version of La traviata.
Anna, Yusif and the Escorial
This series of concerts offered role debuts (of a kind) for Anna Netrebko as Elisabetta and Yusif Eyvazov as Carlo.
Dark and darker
San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago have announced the cancellation of their respective 2020 fall seasons.
Bad news bared
The Metropolitan Opera is heading for a very rocky couple of years.
Met postpones opening to December 31
The Metropolitan Opera announced today that the company has made the difficult decision to cancel the first few months of its 2020–21 season, based on current information regarding the ongoing health crisis. The new season is now scheduled to begin on December 31, 2020, with a special gala performance, the details of which will be shared at a later date.
A Skype full of stars
The Metropolitan Opera announced plans today to live-stream what it is billing as an “At-Home Gala” on Saturday, April 25, at 1pm EDT, featuring performances by many of the company’s most prominent artists, live from their own quarantines around the world.
Met cancels remainder of season
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Metropolitan Opera announced today that the company has canceled the remainder of the 2019–20 season, which was to have ended on May 9, 2020.
Met, Carnegie, NYP, Broadway shut down
The Metropolitan Opera and other venues have announced they will cancel performances as a precautionary measure against COVID-19.
Shut it down!
It’s time for New York City to close down large-scale public gatherings, including Broadway theater and opera.
Desperately seeking Tosca?
La Cieca hears that the Met is actively searching for sopranos available to sing Tosca on Anna Netrebko‘s scheduled dates staring March 26.
“Lacking in awareness”
Los Angeles Opera has released the results of its investigation into Plácido Domingo.
Met imposes quarantine
La Cieca has obtained a letter from the Met’s Assistant General Manager, Artistic informing artists arriving in New York from certain high-risk areas they are subject to a two-week quarantine before rehearsing or performing.
Nobody steps on Cafritz
La Cieca is shocked, shocked to report that…
Was ist’s mit den ewigen Göttern?
Christine Goerke‘s Bayreuth debut has been canceled.
Madrid 86es Domingo
“I accept full responsibility for my actions, and I have grown from this experience.”
Iconography
“American soprano Renée Fleming, one of the most beloved and celebrated singers of our time, is donating her personal archives to Juilliard, her alma mater.”
The Met’s 2020-2021 season
New productions of Aida, Die Zauberflöte, and Don Giovanni and Met premieres of The Fiery Angel and Dead Man Walking headline the Metropolitan Opera’s 2020–21 season.
This woman is dangerous
Renée Fleming—stylish dame with a stylish name—who lived by jungle law in a big city and clawed her way to where the money was…
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
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).
