Teen spirit
La Cieca thought it would be amusing to do a bit of speculation about what’s to come as we approach the middle of the decade.
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You, Claudius
Those Romans! How decadent, how corrupt, how much fun!
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).
Raspberry sauce
Spring forward
Get started an hour earlier (or later?) with your discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects, cher public.
Splitting hairs
Today on Operavore, Our Own JJ talks about wig-pulling catfights. Also heard in passing are Marilyn Horne and Susan Graham.
Box office
Although married five times including to the heretofore off-limits Vestal Virgin, he patronized hundreds of prostitutes while also showering political favors on his male lovers.
Comet over Broadway
Which new addition to the Met (a 2010 debut) has just had a return engagement for 2016-17 canceled?
Excess d’estime
It’s not often operagoers leave humming the scenery, but that was the case Monday, when the Met hauled out Riccardo Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini from the vault.
Once Moravian, with feeling
New Yorkers hungry for an appearance by Karita Mattila (absent from the Met this season) will want to take a look at the Bayerische Staatsoper’s live webcast of Jenufa on Saturday afternoon.
Greene mentions
The usually competitive cher public did not, for once, leap at the chance to flaunt their knowledge of operatic trivia, hmmm.
Queen of the Maybe
“I didn’t think anything could be campier than Adriana. But this is nothing but camp. Adriana at least has tunes.”
A good blind item is worth repeating
Which singer has turned out to be such a headache that the artistic administration have decided they’d better fly over a replacement?
March adness
As the balmy breezes of March caress the budding trees, so let your ardent clicks, cher public, express your affection for our advertisers.
A tsar is born
Vot tsar’ vash!” Here is your Tsar, the 38-year-old Ukranian bass Alexander Tsymbalyuk.
No, No, Lorgnette
Take a break from your scheming, cher public, to participate in this week’s off-topic and general interest discussion.
Somebody to love
If Jonas Kaufmann isn’t quite a household name yet, it’s only a matter of time.
The use of wond’rin’
With Wednesday’s stellar staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, the New York Philharmonic joyously put the ‘music’ back into the Broadway musical.
The winner takes it all
Here’s a chance for you to win two tickets to hear the winners of this year’s Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the intimate ambiance of WQXR’s Greene Space.
Ogni cura si doni al diletto?
José Cura will sing the role of Don José in the Friday, March 1 performance of Bizet’s Carmen, replacing Andrew Richards, who is ill.
Pay attention to the man behind the curtain
La Cieca hears that the Met’s 2013-2014 season announcement will be made at approximately 5:00 PM today on the company’s website.
All Sills final
You can tell a lot about someone from their garage sale.
Thrace off
Nearly 30 years after a Handel opera last played there, Carnegie Hall presented The English Concert opening a three-year opera-oratorio project on Sunday afternoon with Radamisto.