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Newly anointed gay icon Lisa Milne performs the “Jewel Song” from Faust. (For any of this to make sense, you need to have heard her interview on last night’s Sirius broadcast.)
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“At ‘Connect at the Met for Gay and Lesbian Singles,’ a social mixer at the Metropolitan Opera on February 2, prospective hookups sipped Champagne in between acts of Leos Janácek’s ‘Jenufa.’ This grim tragedy might seem unlikely to kindle thoughts of romance, but even those participants who failed to launch a relationship had the satisfaction…
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Don’t forget that this Friday, February 2 is “Gay Hookup Night at the Met,” or as it is more formally titled, “Connect at the Met for Gay and Lesbian Singles.” Whether your goal is serious husband-hunting, a casual encounter to share Champagne and dessert, or just to demonstrate that there are some queens out there…
“Peter Mattei plays Figaro as a lusty bachelor, something like Warren Beatty‘s character in the movie Shampoo. While this angle isn’t particularly relevant to the plot, it’s ideally suited to Mattei, a tall and sexy singer for whom the overused adjective ‘strapping‘ might have been coined.” Our publisher JJ reviews the Met’s new Barbiere di…
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Soprano Yali-Marie Williams is currently singing Traviata at the Opéra de Montréal. Now, La Cieca realizes that not every Violetta can literally look like she’s wasting away, but surely even a more Junoesque soprano can look handsome and chic if she’s costumed intelligently. This is not what La Cieca calls intelligent costuming. In fact, La…
Where else would La Cieca be this Sunday but basking the the star radiance of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation’s annual gala? Now! With 100% more Met artists, including Elizabeth Futral, Samuel Ramey, José Cura, René Pape, James Morris, Marcello Giordani, Patricia Racette, Joseph Calleja, Angela Marambio, Sandra Radvanovsky and Aprile Millo. The galalicious fun…
Juan Diego Flórez, who — if this costume design is to be believed– is planning to play Almaviva as a gay pirate, will headline a mini-company from the Met appearing on “Late Night with David Letterman” tomorrow night, November 8, 2006, at 11:35 p.m., ET, on CBS. The boyish Rossini tenor and his colleagues Diana…
JJ’s take on the Met’s current productions of Faust and La Gioconda is now on the web at Gay City News.
Our own JJ reacts to his recent “maple syrup enema” in Gay City News.
According to our editor JJ, the current NYCO production of Semele “provided a luxe vehicle for the talents of soprano Elizabeth Futral as the mortal princess Semele who becomes the mistress of Jove. Futral is gorgeous enough to tempt the king of the gods, feminine and curvaceous, and she has the personality and wit to…
“I’ve had more affairs with homosexuals than you can count,” says Julia Migenes, who stars in the upcoming PBS telecast of Angels in America with music by Peter Eötvös. In this adaptation of Tony Kushner‘s play, la Migenes “plays a pill-popping Mormon married to a closeted gay man, as well as the spirit of the…
Our publisher JJ (so recently browned out in Queens) expresses his thoughts on the Lincoln Center Festival’s Grendel in his Gay City News review. La Cieca herself picks up the slack on the podcast desk with her presentation of the second act of Maria Stuarda on Unnatural Acts of Opera. Meanwhile, the endlessly inventive Billyboy…
Alas, La Cieca can’t comment regarding onstage goings on at last night’s Traviata at the Met (her evil twin JJ is writing about the event for Gay City News), but things were pretty gala in the auditorium as well. Representing the Blogosphere was one of the Wellsungs, Jonathan Ferrantelli, a deux with the always charming…
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