“The design of the Met’s new production [of Lucia di Lammermoor] by Simon Stone suggests a present-day American Rust Belt, an area once prosperous but now fallen into decline and neglect.”
By La Cieca
Jamie Barton will sing Eboli in the Met’s new production of the original five-act French version of Verdi’s Don Carlos, replacing Elina Garanca, who has withdrawn.
By La Cieca
A new collective bargaining agreement between the Metropolitan Opera and its orchestra, the last of the Met’s three largest unions to reach an agreement, was ratified today.
By La Cieca
Jennifer Hudson “honors” Aretha Franklin by singing “Nessun dorma.”
By La Cieca
La Cieca has received a copy of a message, apparently from the Metropolitan Opera, announcing the departure of Diane Zola from the company.
By La Cieca
At long last the plans for the Met’s 2017 New Year’s Eve Gala are to be realized.
By La Cieca
Awesome, astounding, Asiatic Anna Netrebko sings Puccini and Puccini/Alfano at the Arena di Verona.
By La Cieca
Should the new John Corigliano / Mark Adamo opera The Lord of Cries be renamed The Lord of Crisis?
By La Cieca
As the Met gears up for its first performances in a year and a half. the company is already canceling shows in the early fall.
By La Cieca
Jamie Barton makes her highly-anticipated debut as Carmen opposite the legendary Stephanie Blythe as her alter ego Blythely Oratonio. As Don José!
By La Cieca
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra has accepted a deal to receive bridge pay in return for returning to the bargaining table.
By La Cieca
The eventually reopened Metropolitan Opera promises a swift return to its status quo ante as a farm team for the English National Opera, sharing the London company’s new Ring cycle directed by vieillard terrible Richard Jones.
By La Cieca
The Met Orchestra will stream a concert including the virtual participation of Angela Gheorghiu live from Bucharest.
By La Cieca
The Met is instituting a lockout of its Local One–represented employees (stagehands), effective at midnight tonight.
By La Cieca
“The Met Stars Live in Concert performance featuring soprano Sonya Yoncheva, which was rescheduled for this Saturday, November 28, has now been moved to Saturday, February 27, 2021, as Ms. Yoncheva is still ill (with a non-Covid illness).” Thus speaks the Met’s press department.
By La Cieca
“Pèlerin Deslieux had arrived to escort her to Carnegie Hall. They would walk over together. ‘There’s a queue from here to there!’ he told her.”
By La Cieca
The Met settled with disgraced former music director James Levine for a cool $3.5 million.
By La Cieca
Tonight’s performance of Don Carlo at the Bolshoi Opera has been canceled because bass Ildar Abdrazakov has tested positive for COVID-19.
By La Cieca
La Cieca has heard that Columbia Artists Management Inc. will cease operations on Monday, August 31.
By La Cieca
New York City Opera (remember them?) have announced a program for spring 2021, with repertoire consistent with the company’s recent policy of equal-opportunity pandering.
By La Cieca
The Teatro San Carlo di Napoli’s lavish outdoor concert series continues with Aida featuring Jonas Kaufmann and Anita Rachvelishvili.
By La Cieca
