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Ballopalooza! Ballopalooza!

With the Met season soon to finish, I am sure many will want to unwind with a little after party/masked ball.

on April 11, 2014 at 12:42 AM
Happy vernal equinox! Happy vernal equinox!

What better way to say, “welcome, first day of spring” than with Elena Cernei singing “Printemps qui commence?”

on March 20, 2014 at 10:09 AM
A hymn to heme A hymn to heme

That 60 Minutes piece everyone’s been talking about, with Peter Gelb describing opera as “blood sport,” after the jump.

on October 28, 2013 at 3:47 PM
Mama’s talkin’ loud Mama’s talkin’ loud

Sleep soundly tonight, Kasper Holten: your Vêpres Siciliennes casting problem has just been solved!

on October 27, 2013 at 8:03 PM
Oh, signor Johnson Oh, signor Johnson

La Cieca is going to go out on a not very long limb here and say that Dick Johnson in La fanciulla del West is a great role for Jonas Kaufmann and may well turn out to be one of his three or four greatest.

on October 14, 2013 at 1:06 AM
Tucker everlasting Tucker everlasting

Those dear, dear people over The Greene Space at WQXR would like you, cher public, to join them this Friday for a concert saluting this year’s winner of the Richard Tucker Award, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard.

on October 01, 2013 at 5:03 PM
there s a dance in the old dame yet there s a dance in the old dame yet

Karita Mattila (pictured) sings a little Verdi.

on September 15, 2013 at 10:49 AM
A place behind the sun A place behind the sun

How better to launch this week’s general interest discussion than with a video of Joyce DiDonato singing “Over the Rainbow” at the Last Night of the Proms?

on September 08, 2013 at 7:06 AM
Who’ll stop the reign Who’ll stop the reign

La Cieca is most unhappy indeed to hear that coloraturafan, the undisputed monarch of opera on YouTube, has had his “fourth or fifth” account on the service deleted.

on July 15, 2013 at 11:17 PM
She sang a mouthful She sang a mouthful

Soprano Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs sings the final scene from Salome in the Stefan Herheim production for Den Norske Opera.

on June 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Hommage fires burning Hommage fires burning

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?

on April 28, 2013 at 9:38 PM
Constellation Constellation

Here, for the first time in 40 years, the CBS telecast of the April 21-22 gala honoring the retirement of Sir Rudolf Bing.

on April 26, 2013 at 1:28 AM
Dark side of the moon Dark side of the moon

Finally some video of Stefan Herheim‘s Salome production shows up on YouTube.

on April 19, 2013 at 2:21 AM
What becomes two legends most? What becomes two legends most?

On the final night of her farewell engagement at the Café Carlyle, cabaret legend Elaine Stritch took a few questions from the audience.

on April 06, 2013 at 11:40 PM