Questo e Quello
Happy 71st birthday soprano Jessye Norman.
“International opera superstar Anna Netrebko comes to The Greene Space for an exclusive interview and performance.”
In the October 2016 issue of Cosmopolitan, lissome Laverne Cox pays tribute to some of her personal idols , including Tina Turner, Josephine Baker and, in a particularly breathtaking bit of visual transformation, the first African-American prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera.
On this day in 1954 Britten’s Turn of the Screw premiered in Venice.
Born on this day in 1922 “The Peruvian Songbird,” Yma Sumac.
La Cieca is delighted to note that the Royal Opera, Covent Garden has decided to follow the successful lead of so many American opera companies.
Just 85 years ago, four of Italy’s greatest opera stars gathered at Teatro all Scala for an historic event: the first-ever recording of Arrigo Boito’s sole complete opera, Mefistofele.
La Cieca has been informed LoftOpera is relocating its next production, Così fan tutte—opening on September 16, with performances until September 25—to 101 Varick Avenue, a massive warehouse space in East Williamsburg.
On this day in 1910 the premiere performance of Gustav Mahler‘s Symphony No. 8 in Munich featured a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players.
On this day in 1850 “Swedish Nightingale” Jenny Lind gave her first United States concert.
David Lang is, per The New Yorker, a “postminimalist enfant terrible.”
You may wonder what Rachmaninoff’s Aleko and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci have in common.
On this day in 1868 Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles premiered in Paris.
With the performance of Dessì we move onto a different plane than the other singers.
Born on this day in 1828 writer Lev Nikolayevich “Leo” Tolstoy.
Born on this day in 1932 singer Patsy Cline.
The dramatic tenor died this morning in Vienna.
Born on this day in 1900 soprano Joan Cross.
Happy birthday critic and lecturer Mark Berry.
Among the highlights were concert performances of Jules Massenet’s Thaïs and Otto Nicolai’s Il templario.
Happy Labor/Labour Day US and Canadian Paterrians!
Happy 52nd birthday bass René Pape.
The widely-acclaimed Aix-en-Provence production of Pelléas et Mélisande, broadcast at 1:00 PM on CBC-TWO, is the subject of this afternoon’s discussion at La Casa della Cieca.
On this day in 1967 the TV game show What’s My Line? broadcast its final episode, after a 17 year run on CBS.
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
