Behind the mask Behind the mask

Un ballo in maschera—but instead of a tragedy, an opera buffa—and in Danish?

Cold comfort Cold comfort

An image of the old, ruined Coventry Cathedral goes into closer and closer focus until the stage is dominated by a grassy stone.

What really happened at Bly?

Necrophiliac pedophilia?  Or a slow descent into madness?  What really happened at Bly?  After listening to Glyndebourne’s 2007 Production of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, released in a live recording under the festival’s own label, one is still left in the dark as to what really transpired at that English estate.  Perhaps this…

Three quarters of a crazy day

Our JJ‘s review of the Met’s revival of Le nozze di Figaro didn’t make it into today’s New York Post for reasons that you should be able to figure out once you’ve read the piece. At the suggestion of his editor, La Cieca is publishing it here.