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on that very subject. As an example of the vast variety of blogs out there, she notesYou can read about the Iraq war from Iraqi bloggers, from American soldiers (often censored now), or from scholars like Juan Cole, whose blog, Informed Comment, summarizes, analyzes, and translates news from the front. For opera, to take another example, you have Parterre Box, which is kind of campy, or Sieglinde's Diaries and My Favorite Intermissions, written by frequent Met-goers, or Opera Chic, a Milan-based blog focused on La Scala (which followed in great detail the scandal of Roberto Alagna's walkout during Aida a year ago).La Cieca can only say, thank you cher public; without you I am nothing!
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La Cieca has Maury D'annato to thank for (passively) calling her attention to the blog The Opera Tattler, which in recent days has been detailing next season's plans in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other opera companies of the Transhudson. (The) Opera Tattler also reviews a lot of West Coast opera, and at least so far as La Cieca has read, his (?) blogatorial voice is either very arch or very sincere, either of which is fine by me. ("However, perhaps I should go to Bayreuth in 2009, since I will have the time," writes the Tattler. How can you not love that?)Labels: 2008, 2009, barihunk, blog, maury d'annato, opéra bouffe. barihunk, san francisco, the opera tattler
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"And so for you opera trivia lovers out there, you'll be interested to know that the outfit 'Octavian' was wearing for the 2007 Tucker Gala's 'Presentation of the Rose' was actually the outfit the 'Sophie' wore to the theater that night! Diana [Damrau] actually gave me the clothes off her back, right down to her shoes, and THAT, ladies and gentlemen, was my first outfit!"
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La Cieca's spiritual godmother Tessi Tura (or, more accurately, Ms. Tura's alter ego George Heymont) has finally emerged from a "retirement" of over a decade. George has turned to the blog format to complete a project he's had on the back burner since 1990 or so, "a murder mystery set at the Metropolitan Opera House." La Cieca is sure her cher public will want to follow the progress of this latest Heymontiana (Heymontade?) at
A Dying Art Form.
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Our Own John Yohalem is the subject of a quizzical posting on dishy gawker.com today. Dear John (whom La Cieca likes to call "The Ragin' Pagan") wrote a letter to the New Yorker in response to a mention in an article on Asperger's syndrome. It seems that author Tim Page recalled John's erstwhile(?) habit of scribbling the dates and lineage of the dear Hapsburg dynasty on the walls of the New York subway system and came to the conclusion that he must have ended up homeless or institutionalized! While John is hardly homeless, he certainly can be considered an institution, both on his own
blog and here at parterre.com where he is one of our most prolific commenters. (As always, La Cieca will respect her cher public's privacy and will not divulge the relevant nom de plume.) The Gawker writer finishes by warning, "Watch your ass, Alex Ross," a sentiment La Cieca echoes, though not perhaps for the same reason.
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La Cieca has just been informed that soprano Mary Dunleavy will participate in tonight's panel discussion "Opera and Technology" at The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. No word on whether La Dunleavy replaces or supplements the previously announced Lucy Shelton. Our own JJ will be
there of course, along with a veritable constellation of opera pundits: Elena Park, Editorial and Creative Content, The Metropolitan Opera; Beth Greenberg, stage director, New York City Opera; Wayne Koestenbaum, poet and writer; and Anne Midgette, critic, The New York Times. That's tonight at 7:30 PM, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (between 116th and 118th Streets), second floor.
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