Questo e Quello
It only just occurred to La Cieca that the opening night of New York City Opera’s 2013 season—the premiere of their new production of Powder Her Face—is February 15, a date that sounds oddly familiar somehow.
La Cieca invites her cher public to open their eyes and ears for this week’s discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.
Noted junk sculptor Dr. Jonathan Miller is now the subject of a biography and it appears he’s mellowed in his old age.
People named Jimmy or Placido don’t seem to know this, but when your brains or your bones send you the message, “Hang up the toe-shoes, Bobolink,” do it!
The 2012 Bayreuth production of Parsifal directed by Stefan Herheim will be released on Blu-ray and DVD by Opus Arte in April 2013.
Tonight at 7:00 PM, the (other) Met does a live webcast of “the sixteenth-century Kunqu opera masterpiece The Peony Pavilion.
Imagine if someone left Vermeer’s masterpiece “Girl With a Pearl Earring” out in the rain.
Our Own JJ (not pictured) is delighted and humbled—well, delighted anyway…
You might even call it “fun.”
Though his life is blessed with joy and full of hope, which artist could spare only 20 minutes to sign autographs before shouting “I’m done” and stomping away from a queue of disappointed fans?
Those slackers among you who were not in attendance for Sunday’s chat/viewing of the Bayerische Staatsoper Turandot now have the chance to get up to speed.
The theatrical expression “You can’t tell the players without a program” was never more apt than when applied to Opus Arte’s release of Cavalli’s La Didone.
Did the ancient Egyptians invent chest waxing?
Opera Teen (pictured, second from left) is not kidding us: he had an interview with Peter Gelb.
The last of the Strauss-Hofmannsthal collaborations, Arabella, is a real problem child.
Sometimes the simplest solutions are best, as Pat C. realized in identifying our previous Regie quiz as Samson et Dalila.
Your doyenne La Cieca (not pictured) invites you to our weekly discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.
One of the delights of doing these weekly breakdowns is sending them in and then waiting patiently to see what sort of illustration La Cieca uses with it.
Happy birthday to baritone Zachary Gordin, cover boy for this year’s Barihunk Wall Calendar.
Anyone looking for orgiastic obscenity in Calixto Bieito‘s production of Carmen at the London Coliseum, will be bitterly disappointed, writes Rupert Christiansen.
Count on Gotham Chamber Opera to spice up the spring season.
Lyric Opera of Chicago announced today that the respected stage, film and television actor Patrick Stewart will co-host The Second City Guide to the Opera on Saturday, January 5 with internationally renowned soprano and Lyric Opera creative consultant Renée Fleming.
After an uneven start to the season, the Met brought its A game Friday to a superb revival of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito.
If you’re the sort who prefers his diva to be an unapproachable sphinx prone to infuriating cancellations while radiating ennui, I suspect that the sunny, hard-working, grateful persona of American mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato will not appeal to you at all.
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
