Questo e Quello
“Mr. Luisi won praise replacing Mr. Levine time after time, particularly in a costly version of Wagner’s Ring cycle—though, perhaps in a sign of the situation’s delicacy, the two conductors have never met in person.”
“See for yourself what the genius of Walt Disney has created in his first full length feature production.”
First seen in 2005, Siegfried makes a welcome return as a stand-alone production this season.
Washingtonians enjoyed a happy reunion this past Sunday with David Daniels.
La Cieca thinks she knows who the murderer is.
Born on this day in 1943 American actress Blythe Danner.
The one glitch was a much-publicised fiasco in the bear-pit of Milan’s La Scala, where in 1998 she was booed after her performance in Donzietti’s Lucrezia Borgia.”
“Chee’s novel charts Berne’s course from the mid-19th-century snowbound Minnesotan frontier, to the tents of a roving circus troupe…
On this day in 1900 Gustave Charpentier‘s Louise premiered in Paris.
It’s up to you, cher public, to try to decide for yourself what, if anything, this bizarre story in the New York Times means.
La Cieca is pleased and proud to present the Top 10 most popular posts on parterre.com for the month of January 2016.
Friday’s season premiere at the Met of Donizetti’s opera about the doomed Scottish queen proved surprisingly satisfying and a genuine success for Sondra Radvanovsky.
Live recordings of Hans Knappertsbusch conducting Parsifal seem to proliferate like stairways in M.C. Escher prints.
t’s with great joy that I am able to give you Carmen, sung in Italian, from La Scala in 1931. I love this kind of stuff.
La Cieca (pictured) considers herself privileged to recognize the advertisers whose generous support of parterre.com helps keep this blog bringing you the latest in opera news, reviews and gossip.
On this day in 1893 Puccini’s Manon Lescaut premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
“Baritone Jarrett Ott (bottom) in Philadelphia, with current boyfriend Adam Franklin (top)…”
Happy 95th birthday performer Carol Channing.
If only—if only half the creativity and spectacle that Encompass New Opera Theatre has lavished on its lively production of The Astronaut’s Tale (at the BAM Fisher through Sunday) had been expended on the pretentious libretto by the late Jack Larsonand the quirky, unappealing score by Charles Fussell…
Born on this day in 58 BC Livia, Empress consort of the Roman Empire and, eventually, goddess.
When it comes to throwing shade, Latrice Royale herself must surely yield her crown to the queen who made a contribution to the Rentboy.com Legal Defense Fund “In honor of David Gockley and San Francisco Opera’s production of Gordon Getty‘s Usher House.”
On this day in 1781 Mozart’s Idomeneo premiered in Munich.
New York City Opera Renaissance’s Tosca “was opera at its most retrograde, an effort to recreate a golden age from a handful of tinsel.”
For a change of pace, “Trove Thursday” presents three recent vocal (but non-operatic) selections.
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
