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The acclaimed Théâtre du Châtelet production of Nixon in China will, unlike the revolution, be televised.
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The sorrowful précis
Brian Kellow‘s “Coda” piece in the current Opera News, summarized: “I’m so cranky that even namedropping has lost its thrill.” (Photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera)
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).
Glücklich zu sehen, je suis enchanté!
Tenor Nikolai Schukoff (recently Parsifal in the Lyon production) displays so much furry semi-nudity on his web site that the page should be called “Otter Space.”
Ass backwards
Zachary Woolfe went to Las Vegas and all we got was a thoughtful analysis of why Robert Lepage was never a good fit for the Ring.
Gold standard
Like everyone else, La Cieca was watching Mad Men last night, and suddenly something clicked.
Once on this regie
This busy production stumped just about everyone.
Intermission feature
Let not the warm days of spring tempt you too far away from this week’s discussion of off-topic and general interest subject, cher public!
And that’s when I clicked “close gesamtkunstwerk”
A sharp-eyed spy at tonight’s performance of Die Walküre at the Met notes that, while there were no malfunctions of the Machine per se, there was an unexpected projection toward the middle of the third act.
Room for improvement
It’s hard to think of a rare work by a great composer more tailor-made for a twenty-first century reexamination than Mozart’s Il Sogno di Scipione.
Teen dream
Some days you can feel like a hero just getting out of bed in the morning.
Blindsided
The story is short, but to the point: this soprano has been “sacked” from a major opera house’s gala Puccini revival.
Slow curtain, the end
Here’s a taste of what’s in store for the Met’s HD audience on Saturday
Who can that attractive girl be?
La Cieca wants to be among the first to congratulate soprano Ailyn Pérez, who is the winner of the 2012 Richard Tucker Award.
Pain and suffering
A woman unhappy with the Bolshoi Opera’s controversial staging of Ruslan and Ludmila was denied a one million ruble compensation bid by Moscow’s Tverskoi court on Monday.
Recovered girl
Here’s a bit of good news for all you Traviata fans with tickets for tomorrow night’s Met performance or Saturday afternoon’s HD.
Starless night
An understudy saved the show at the Met’s La Traviata Friday night, but no star was born.
Lulu (some)
Daniel Barenboim does not want to conduct Berg’s Lulu. Or so it seems.
Square cut or pear shaped
La Cieca (in larger tiara) thinks it’s high time we all took a break from Regie watching and everything else…
There will have been blood
There’s nothing like a good performance of Verdi’s Macbeth and here is proof positive because this dvd is (almost) nothing like a good performance.
Daniela abbandonata
Our own Ercole Farnese has alerted La Cieca to a breaking story in Il Secolo XIX: Dessì diserta Genova per amore.
Geherheimnis
“Since no opera company in the U.S. has quite got up the courage to present a Herheim production, this webcast offers us a chance to sample this director’s unique style of Regie.”