Bunny hop
“Grammy Award winner and international opera star Joyce DiDonato will perform on October 3 in White Rabbit Red Rabbit.”
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Not since Nebuchadnezzar’s hanging garden went to pot
Born on this day in 1922 soprano / mezzo-soprano / opera director Regina Resnik.
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).
Meine Klangkunst, sie küssen so heiß! Meine Kleider sind schmiegsam und weiß!
Now this I call arts journalism!
A tale told by an idiot
Braindead fucktard Norman Lebrecht makes two major errors of fact in two sentences.
Beyond the forest
Mimìs, Violettas, and Cio-Cio-Sans may live, love, and meet their ends without a tear from me, but I have never left a performance of Janácek’s The Cunning Little Vixen dry-eyed.
The carat or the stick
Happy 61st birthday avant-garde soprano, composer, pianist, organist, performance artist and painter Diamanda Galás.
Swan knight, how I love you, my dear old swan knight!
On this day in 1850 Wagner’s Lohengrin premiered at the Staatskapelle Weimar.
I’ve always felt like a kid
Happy 64th birthday actor, producer and comedian Paul Reubens, aka “Pee-wee Herman.”
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
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!
“I have a vast variety of sources where we get our frocks”
Say what you will about Sarah Palin, but she gets her styling tips from the best!
Nous voulons explorer la bonté contrée énorme où tout se tait
Born on this day in 1880 poet Guillaume Apollinaire.
Statue of limitations
“Trove Thursday” has resurrected Hérold’s Zampa, ou La fiancée de marbre performed by Les Arts Florissants.
Technique is communication
Born on this day in 1918 composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.
Flip or flop
Separated at spitcurl: ice queen Vanessa (Erin Wall) and misfit boy toy Claus (Jonathan Blalock)?
“One of the most easiest pieces for me to record”
Here’s a tease of Anna Netrebko‘s “In questa reggia,.”
All fall down
La Cieca (pictured) asks, what are your eight (or even 10) can’t-miss opera events for the fall?
I couldn’t kill a fly
Happy 86th or 87th birthday actress Vera Miles.
Look who’s talking
La Cieca is proud to share with her cher public the transition of parterre.com to a new commenting system powered by Disqus.com.
Infinite variety
Happy 62nd birthday playwright, actor and diseuse Charles Busch.
That’s how they did it
Idomeneo proved enormously moving while a much more complicated Così fan Tutte went for shallow romantic hijinks stripping that work of its darkly ambiguous disturbing view of love.
Can’t buy me love
dell’ arte Opera Ensemble continued its exploration of love and money by mounting Massenet’s Manon
It happened one knight
Falstaff, Verdi’s totally unexpected, final, great comedic roar.
