Chat: Nabucco Chat: Nabucco

Listen and discuss, cher public, as the Met broadcasts Nabucco.

Chat: Roméo et Juliette Chat: Roméo et Juliette

Start your New Year’s Eve out right with a nice passionate chat on the subject of Roméo et Juliette.

Chat: L’Italiana in Algeri Chat: L’Italiana in Algeri

Today’s matinee broadcast features a Met performance from earlier in the season. Chat about it here beginning at 1:00 PM.

Brevity is the soul of wit Brevity is the soul of wit

Tonight’s chat features the enshortened English language version of The Magic Flute the Met has put forth as their annual Christmas entertainment for the kiddies.

Chat: Salome Chat: Salome

Welcome to La Casa della Cieca for the matinee of Salome starting at the Met at 1:00 pm on Saturday, cher public. Please be sure to read the notice after the jump.

Chat: Nabucco Chat: Nabucco

Nabucco opens tonight.

Chat: L’amour de loin Chat: L’amour de loin

Near, far, wherever you are, you can enjoy today’s 1:00 PM Met broadcast of L’Amour de Loin.

Chat: Salome Chat: Salome

Listen (starting at 7:55 PM) and and chat, cher public.

Chat: Manon Lescaut Saturday matinee Chat: Manon Lescaut Saturday matinee

Get ready, cher public, for the first Met Saturday matinee broadcast.

Chat: L’Amour de Loin Chat: L’Amour de Loin

Whether near or far, cher public, you can enjoy the Met premiere of L’Amour de Loin in the company of other denizens of La Casa della Cieca.

Chat: Manon Lescaut Chat: Manon Lescaut

Get your faces on, cher public, for tonight’s chat during the season premiere of Manon Lescaut.

Nile, be seeing you Nile, be seeing you

La Cieca is sure you’ll find something to chat about.

Chat: Jenufa Chat: Jenufa

If there’s anything the Kostelnicka likes, it’s having people talk about her.

Chat: Guillaume Tell Chat: Guillaume Tell

Note the early start time of 6:25 PM for tonight’s streaming broadcast of Guillaume Tell.

Bavarian idol Bavarian idol

Finally the postponed Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg takes to the web today.

Chat: L’Italiana in Algeri Chat: L’Italiana in Algeri

In tonight’s performance of L’Italiana in Algeri, surely any shipwrecks will be confined to the plot.

Chat: Tristan und Isolde Chat: Tristan und Isolde

As afternoon fades into evening, confide in each other, cher public, in La Casa della Cieca.

Der Sommer schauert still seinem Ende entgegen Der Sommer schauert still seinem Ende entgegen

The first “La Casa della Cieca” chat of the 2016-2017 season features Diana Damrau.

Chat: Pelléas et Mélisande Chat: Pelléas et Mélisande

The widely-acclaimed Aix-en-Provence production of Pelléas et Mélisande, broadcast at 1:00 PM on CBC-TWO, is the subject of this afternoon’s discussion at La Casa della Cieca.

Chat: Amleto Chat: Amleto

To chat or not to chat?

Chat: Bayreuth Festival Chat: Bayreuth Festival

Chat about live broadcasts from this year’s Bayreuth Festival.

Chat: Les Indes galantes Chat: Les Indes galantes

The cher public are invited to enjoy this afternoon’s live webcast of Les Indes galantes from the Bayerische Staatsoper.

Chat: Pikovaya dama Chat: Pikovaya dama

Parterre fave Stefan Herheim returns to Dutch National Opera to direct Pikovaya dama, in which the director attempts to reflect on the composer’s life, notably his hidden love for men.

Saturday afternoon chat Saturday afternoon chat

La Cieca is sure she is unanimous in stating that this afternoon’s online opera broadcasts offer something for everyone in the parterre continuum.