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The entire Metropolitan Opera schedule for 2020-2021, in what looks like a fairly plausible form, has been leaked.
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Bass-baritone Craig Colclough makes his Met debut tonight in the title role of Macbeth.
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Opera Lafayette Presents a Unique ‘Leonore’
Beethoven’s Leonore, the centerpiece of Opera Lafayette’s 25th-anniversary season, will be heard in a way no one has had the opportunity to imagine it since 1805. Conductor and musicologist Will Crutchfield has completed a score based on Beethoven’s extensive sketches for this performance. Monday, March 2.
This overabundance of detail serves only to set La Cieca wondering who protested Ms. Davis.
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La Cieca has discovered a document of Plácido Domingo‘s faute de mieux Metropolitan Opera farewell performance.
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Opera, Food and Wine in Northern Italy – May 2020
The highlights of this nine-day, ten-person tour will be Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re at La Scala in a new production by Spanish director Àlex Ollé, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in Turin and Weill’s Mahagonny in Reggio Emilia, plus the Pavarotti Museum in Modena. Visit: Rick Perdian-Travel & Music.
Yusif Eyvazov will sing Calàf in the October 3, 6, 9, and 12 Met performances of Puccini’s Turandot.
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An “Anti-Harassment Workshop” was scheduled at the Met today in the same room where Plácido Domingo was rehearsing for this season’s revival of Macbeth.
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La Cieca hears that for the first time in recorded history, the Metropolitan Opera will have an official presence in the Pride March this Sunday.
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Karita Mattila has just rather casually let slip that she has “signed in for [her] first Isolde.”
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A report from a parterrian audience member indicates that Mariusz Kwiecien canceled Les Pêcheurs de Perles after the first part yet again at the Met tonight.
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A “spy” unaffiliated with parterre box whispers to La Cieca that yesterday’s dress rehearsal of Samson et Dalila at the Met was sung by Nancy Fabiola Herrera.
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La Cieca is almost certain that Diana Damrau will not appear at the Met this fall for La traviata.
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The third segment of New York City Opera’s gradually emerging 2018-2019 season will be Mascagni’s Isabeau.
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Jonas Kaufmann‘s acclaimed Dick will highlight the Met’s 2018-2019 season.
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The list of Anna Netrebko/Yannick Nézet-Séguin collaborations has expanded once again.
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Opera Gems: The Art of Dramatic Voices
Presented by Grandi Voci Concerts, Matthew Laifer Artists Management, Jason Tramm, MidAtlantic Philharmonic Orchestra. Saturday, February 22 at 8 p.m. at Merkin Hall, located at 129 West 67th Street, New York, NY. More information.
