Questo e Quello
On this lovely first day of May, La Cieca encourages the cher public (pictured) to offer a word of thanks to this month’s sponsors of parterre.com.
The silver-voiced teen star of film musicals of the 1930s and 1940s died earlier this week.
Our Own M. Croche (not pictured, presumably) has an idea to pitch to the Royal Opera’s advertising department.
Those of you who so readily groan, “Oh, dear god, no, not another Carmen! Give it a bleeding rest!” (and you know who you are) may lose that long face, temporarily at least, when you hear the exotic repertoire promised by Gotham Chamber Opera next season.
In Leos Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen, the heroine is shot and skinned for her fur.
La Cieca is always delighted when Met stars “cross over” into more popular genres of entertainment.
La Cieca (not pictured) asks, is it just me (it usually is), or does the new trailer for the Royal Opera’s 2013 Summer season feel a little, oh, I don’t know, familiar?
Congratulations to Bryan Hymel (right), winner of the 2013 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera “for his performances in Les Troyens, Robert Le Diable and Rusalka at the Royal Opera House.”
Let the discussion (on off-topic and general interest subject) bud and flower!
Here, for the first time in 40 years, the CBS telecast of the April 21-22 gala honoring the retirement of Sir Rudolf Bing.
The Immolation Quiz now stands tied between two competitors, each of whom has identified correctly 20 of the 25 singers represented.
A last minute scheduling conflict at the New York Post (curse you, Tony season!) meant that my planned review of Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at Manhattan School of Music had to be 86ed.
Congratulations to the winners of the eighth annual F. Paul Driscoll Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence, who were lauded at an impromptu “come as you are” get-together Sunday night at the Plaza.
To close its season this week, New York City Opera is unleashing hurricane-force gales of laughter.
La Cieca hopes you, the cher public, will reveal (rather than conceal) your opinions on off-topic and general interest subjects this week.
Your Wagnerian alternatives for today’s chat in La Casa della Cieca…
Of the two love stories that unfolded at David et Jonathas Wednesday night, it’s hard to say which was more moving.
Finally some video of Stefan Herheim‘s Salome production shows up on YouTube.
You have only until Sunday to catch the most heart-breaking moments seen on New York City operatic stages this season.
Two time Oscar winner and Quentin Tarantino muse Christoph Waltz is branching out into opera direction.
The evergreen singing actress was born 73 years ago in Berlin.
The reinvention of Verdi’s masterpiece, La Traviata, as sung by world-famous French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay, is the subject of Philippe Béziat’s thrilling new movie.
La Cieca’s sources tell her that a planned revival of Faust at the Met in the fall of 2014 has been canceled, because who wants to see that ugly thing again, or else the leading lady didn’t feel like singing it, whichever.
De Nederlandse Opera’s remarkable 2011 feat of premiering productions of Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide and Iphigénie en Tauride on the same day and virtually the same set has been issued on a 2-DVD set by Opus Arte
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Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
