“What gets me…!” “What gets me…!”

What gets me, La Cieca snaps, is not so much that Levine bit off more than he could chew, because that’s old news.

By on October 07, 2015 at 2:17 PM
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Are you available for dancing in the streets and shouting from the housetops? Are you available for dancing in the streets and shouting from the housetops?

La Cieca is looking for a few good part-time reviewers.

By on October 19, 2012 at 11:55 AM
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Yes, yes, La Cieca realizes that parterre has gone “All Anna All the Time,” but, hey, she’s opening the Met season in a company premiere, plus we like her. Anyway, La Netrebko is profiled, covered, revealed, reported, what she eats and when and where, whom she knows and where she was and when and where…

By on September 23, 2011 at 12:45 PM
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So stop me if you’ve heard this one: a, shall we say, mature diva gets stranded in the snow, and in her place a substitute (carefully hidden, no doubt!) gives a performance! Out of nowhere – gives a performance!  Well, according to Intermezzo, life imitated art (and what better art to imitate than All About Eve?)…

By on December 30, 2010 at 10:39 PM
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La Cieca recalls the words of her old, old, old friend Eve Harrington: “In good conscience, I must give credit where credit is due.”  And far be it for La Cieca to begrudge her cher public something so freely given by Little Miss Evil.

By on April 02, 2010 at 12:34 PM
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