2017 in review
Call it The Year of the Cancellation: the top 25 most read parterre stories of 2017.
2017
Apathy greets announcement of Metropolitan Opera’s 2017-2018 season
An authentically reactionary revival of Franco Zeffirelli‘s sacred production of Puccini’s Tosca is the highlight of the Met’s 2017-2018 season, staged by Sir David McVicar.
You’ve got to taste all the fruit
The current iteration of that altogether necessary resource the Met Future Wiki currently lists a repertoire of 32(!) programs intended for the Met’s 2017-2018 season, which clearly is absurd.
Alma costanza
“The Met also said a new production of Bellini’s Norma with Anna Netrebko and Joyce DiDonato will open the 2017-18 season.”
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2016-2017 season!
The Met’s 2016-2017 season opens on September 26 with a new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
Sparkle!
Nico Muhly‘s Valley of the Dolls will receive its world premiere with an all-star cast!
Ina moment now
La Cieca hears that soprano Pretty Yende, a standout Met debutante last season in Le Comte Ory, has signed with the company for for four roles over the next three years: Pamina and Lucia in 2014-2015, Adina in 2015-2016 and Rosina in 2016-2017.
Zurück vom “Ring!”
Peter Gelb says the Ring will definitely not return, as originally planned, in 2017, and where has La Cieca heard that before?
Plank your lucky stars
The next scheduled appearance of the Met’s Ring production has been canceled, as irrevocably as these things can ever be.
Geherheimnishehr hallt mir dein Wort
It’s not a sure thing, only a “maybe,” but it’s the most exciting Regie news La Cieca has heard all season.
Put a Ring on
La Cieca (not pictured) was just leaked the information that the next planned revival of the Met’s Ring production (after next season) will be in the spring of 2017, i.e., about five years from now. That’s handy, because five years is the approximate lead time of casting big projects like these; the current crop of […]
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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).
