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The celebrated Italian soprano died yesterday. She was 92.
By La Cieca
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The beloved lyric soprano has died, according to press reports.
By La Cieca
It is with a heavy heart that La Cieca predicts the demise of New York City Opera.
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It is reported that the tenor died suddenly today of a heart attack in his home in Augusta, Sicily.
By La Cieca
The Grammy winning opera and concert singer is dead. She was 74.
By La Cieca
Critic Martin Bernheimer has died. He was 83.
By James Jorden
OperaChic caught the story first, and now it’s even made the AP: Juan Diego Flórez has canceled Chicago (and anything else on the agenda for the next six weeks or so) due to a throat infection from a swallowed fishbone.
By La Cieca
In related macabre news, (reportedly) gay tenor Sergej Larin died this weekend, and La Cieca has just heard an unconfirmed report that another gay tenor, Giuliano Ciannella, has also passed away.
By La Cieca
In fact, she became Peggy Lee.
By La Cieca
UPDATE: La Cieca has just heard that the “dark season” is not a done deal just yet. The NYCO board meets next week to make that decision. (Given how late in the game this is, most likely the “decision” will be no more than a formality. But La Cieca will keep her ear to the…
By La Cieca
The Broadway baritone, star of Camelot, died yesterday at the age of 73. Goulet won a Tony Award for for the 1968 Kander and Ebb musical The Happy Time, and most recently appeared on Broadway as Georges in the 2004 revival of La Cage aux Folles. An obituary and appreciation of the performer can be…
By La Cieca
How sad that Luciano Pavarotti‘s final role should be Buoso Donati!
By La Cieca
Tribute to Pavarotti at Unnatural Acts of Opera
By La Cieca