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The writers of the Box and James’s friends are saddened to announce the death of the inimitable founder of Parterre Box
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One of my absolute favorite later Cole Porter lyrics.
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So, give me three good reasons we should not hear Jamie Barton as the mother of Salomé?
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“As for next year, Gheorghiu makes an as-yet-unannounced return for the first time in seven years to the Met in New York.”
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“The design of the Met’s new production [of Lucia di Lammermoor] by Simon Stone suggests a present-day American Rust Belt, an area once prosperous but now fallen into decline and neglect.”
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La Cieca hears that Anna Netrebko has cancelled her November performances of Nabucco in Vienna to schedule shoulder surgery.
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La Cieca hears that major news is coming from the Met regarding 2021.
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La Cieca and the gang down at parterre box offer best wishes for a speedy recovery to Anna Netrebko.
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La Cieca hears that the centerpiece of the 2021 Salzburg Easter Festival will be a new production of Turandot conducted by Christian Thielemann (not pictured) .
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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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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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Yusif Eyvazov will sing Calàf in the October 3, 6, 9, and 12 Met performances of Puccini’s Turandot.
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