Love hears, love knows, love answers
This week “Trove Thursday” brings a rare in-house recording of a visit to the Metropolitan Opera House by the Staatsoper Hamburg presenting Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress with a deluxe cast
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Not nobody, not nohow!
“Mr. Luisi won praise replacing Mr. Levine time after time, particularly in a costly version of Wagner’s Ring cycle—though, perhaps in a sign of the situation’s delicacy, the two conductors have never met in person.”
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).
See for yourself
“See for yourself what the genius of Walt Disney has created in his first full length feature production.”
Sag, welch wunderbare Träume
First seen in 2005, Siegfried makes a welcome return as a stand-alone production this season.
Blackberry winner
Washingtonians enjoyed a happy reunion this past Sunday with David Daniels.
The double negative has led to proof positive
La Cieca thinks she knows who the murderer is.
No, she is an actress
Born on this day in 1943 American actress Blythe Danner.
Se il destassi… no, peloso!
The one glitch was a much-publicised fiasco in the bear-pit of Milan’s La Scala, where in 1998 she was booed after her performance in Donzietti’s Lucrezia Borgia.”
When the naysayers ‘nay’ you pick up your pace
“Chee’s novel charts Berne’s course from the mid-19th-century snowbound Minnesotan frontier, to the tents of a roving circus troupe…
Autour de moi tout est sourire, lumiére et joie!
On this day in 1900 Gustave Charpentier‘s Louise premiered in Paris.
The toothless tiger rules the restless jungle
It’s up to you, cher public, to try to decide for yourself what, if anything, this bizarre story in the New York Times means.
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La Cieca is pleased and proud to present the Top 10 most popular posts on parterre.com for the month of January 2016.
Queen for a D
Friday’s season premiere at the Met of Donizetti’s opera about the doomed Scottish queen proved surprisingly satisfying and a genuine success for Sondra Radvanovsky.
The hill is greener
Live recordings of Hans Knappertsbusch conducting Parsifal seem to proliferate like stairways in M.C. Escher prints.
Unfiltered
t’s with great joy that I am able to give you Carmen, sung in Italian, from La Scala in 1931. I love this kind of stuff.
Kiss them for me
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Era amorosa la tua Manon? Rammenti?
On this day in 1893 Puccini’s Manon Lescaut premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
Ott and proud
“Baritone Jarrett Ott (bottom) in Philadelphia, with current boyfriend Adam Franklin (top)…”
Show Girl
Happy 95th birthday performer Carol Channing.
Flying too high with some guy in the sky
If only—if only half the creativity and spectacle that Encompass New Opera Theatre has lavished on its lively production of The Astronaut’s Tale (at the BAM Fisher through Sunday) had been expended on the pretentious libretto by the late Jack Larsonand the quirky, unappealing score by Charles Fussell…
Goodness has nothing to do with it
Born on this day in 58 BC Livia, Empress consort of the Roman Empire and, eventually, goddess.
Ombra mai fu!
When it comes to throwing shade, Latrice Royale herself must surely yield her crown to the queen who made a contribution to the Rentboy.com Legal Defense Fund “In honor of David Gockley and San Francisco Opera’s production of Gordon Getty‘s Usher House.”
Name that Neptune
On this day in 1781 Mozart’s Idomeneo premiered in Munich.