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Future imperfect
This year’s treat was Vittorio Gnecchi’s Cassandra, completed around 1905
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
And I’m not throwing away my gold!
I sat through the Met’s Ring twice, and it never occurred to me that any thought had gone into it at all.
Where the nuts come from
On this day in 1948 the Frank Loesser musical Where’s Charley opened on Broadway.
Cape fear
Anna Netrebko and a ten-kilo evening cloak perform “In questa reggia,” complete and live!
Life is a lot like jazz
On this day in 1935 Porgy and Bess opened at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway.
I still get jealous
On this day in 1947 Julie Styne‘s musical High Button Shoes premiered at the Broadway Theatre.
Bavarian idol
Finally the postponed Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg takes to the web today.
The eyes on Irene Bordoni
On this day in 1928 Cole Porter’s musical Paris premiered at the Music Box Theatre.
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Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
It was a euphoria beyond anything she’d ever felt on the stage!
“But mostly they were intoxicated with each other.”
Rubble man
Jarrett Ott performs the Kenneth Fuchs monodrama Falling Man tonight at the at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum.
Then and forever
On this day in 1982 the musical Cats opened on Broadway.
Incomplete artwork
“He towered over the listless supporting cast like Daniel Day-Lewis guest-starring in a marionette show.”
Split at the ‘seems’
“Elvira, for whom Mozart reserved his gentlest, most compassionate music…”
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The Philadelphia Story
La Cieca thought you, the cher public, might enjoy the return of some classic episodes of Unnatural Acts of Opera.
Less than meets the eye
Born on this day in 1907 legendary costume designer Jean Louis.
Period piece
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s production of L’Italiana in Algeri for the Met remains steadfastly ignorant of postcolonial theory.
Go into your glance
Happy birthday to mean, moody, magnificent mezzo-soprano Rinat Shaham.
If you want to send a message, don’t use the ‘Telegraph’
Not Verdi but Elton John. Oops!
O patria, quanto mi costi!
“The antagonistic themes of Aida seem to have spilled into the wings after a student production of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera was cancelled amid a row over suggestions of ‘cultural appropriation’.”
Chat: L’Italiana in Algeri
In tonight’s performance of L’Italiana in Algeri, surely any shipwrecks will be confined to the plot.
