Blind item
Anna Netrebko sings “Tvajo malchan’je nepan’atna” from Iolanta earlier this evening at the Liceu, Barcelona.
Recent Stories
New York has neon, Berlin has bars, but ah! Caramoor!
This summer at Caramoor, Will Crutchfield (not pictured) will conduct two Verdi operas written for the Académie Royale de Musique.
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).
The next voice you hear
La Cieca is delighted to announce that she has joined the cast of WQXR’s radio edition of “Operavore.”
Queens of song
Our own JJ ponders the Met’s new production of Maria Stuarda (not pictured) for Musical America.
Come un bel dì di gennaio
I’ve always had a certain affection for Roberto Alagna.
Hot ticket
La Cieca invites the cher public (all of you!) to engage in the weekly ritual of discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.
Isle, cry tomorrow
I completely missed The Enchanted Island during the Met’s 2011-12 season, both in the house and in the HD presentation. Even on Sirius, I had only heard snippets of the performance.
I am missing the winter now
One quick way to warm up: Watching tenor heartthrob Roberto Alagna.
Vil cutlet
True, Joyce DiDonato’s Mary spat out those fighting words in a tangy chest voice, but it was hard to believe she meant them.
A little off the top
Michael Capasso, General Director of the Dicapo Opera Theatre has announced that Dicapo will be going on hiatus for a period of six months.
Bicentenarian
La Cieca it would be both fun and appropriate to get an early start celebrating one of this year’s two major 200th birthdays, that of Richard Wagner, and what better way to kick up our heels than with a parterre competition?
Fire and Ice
“Don’t listen to a Romanian man who says he prefers a ‘natural’ woman,” says Gheorghiu.
The year in review
In the calendar year 2012, parterre.com garnered an estimated five million pageviews, with over 1,600,000 visits and more than 300,000 unique visitors.
Wigs and weaves
It’s easiest to write reviews when there are soaring triumphs and miserable failures.
Forever plaid
It’s the week of Maria Stuarda, cher public, sure to be near the foreground in our latest discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.
She’s Tyred
Elizabeth Bishop will sing Didon today at the Met, replacing an ailing Susan Graham.
Schrödinger’s cat fancy
“So is opera as vibrant as ever, or is it hanging on by a thread? How to write the history of an art form that hovers, Schrödinger’s catlike, simultaneously alive and dead?”
An embarrassment of divas
As if last week’s survey wasn’t enough, a few more recent diva-recital disks remain worthy of attention particularly since they arrive from five front-rank singers.
Décolletage
Feel free to bare more than just your shoulders, cher public, as you discuss this week’s off-topic and general interest subjects.
The naked and the dead
The controversial production of La traviata from La Monnaie directed by Andrea Breth is now available for viewing online.
Quand viendra l’instant des suprêmes adieux
American tenor Bryan Hymel will make his Met debut, singing the role on December 26, December 29 matinee, January 1, and January 5 matinee (the date of the global HD transmission).
Happy birthday, Giacomo Puccini
“Il Leone di Lucca” (as La Cieca has never heard the composer called) was born December 22, 1858.