Today’s episode of “Live from the Bayreuth Festival,” is the revival of Hans Neuenfels‘ rat-infested Lohengrin, a production most memorable last summer for the quicksilver conducting of Andris Nelsons, also returning this season. The broadcast proper begins at 10:00 AM EDT. For a list of web stations offering this program, go to Operacast, and naturally…

This morning, live from the Bayreuth Festival, the season premiere of Katharina Wagner‘s controversial production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. The broadcast proper begins at 10:00 AM EDT. For a list of web stations offering this program, go to Operacast, and naturally La Casa della Cieca will be open for any Markers who care to…

It’s a scorcher out there, cher public, at least in New York, so perhaps some of you will want to stay inside where it’s cool, and enjoy a Saturday afternoon chat, where things are bound to heat up. A few suggestions for you listening pleasure, after the jump.

On this first day of full equality here in New York, La Cieca is going to be just the teensiest bit quizzical and suggest listening to a couple of works that prove that not all operas are created equal! The two grand selections follow the jump.

On this first summery weekend, La Cieca hopes you will all enjoy the balmy weather; but, if you must, there’s chat, and quite a lot to chat about there is too!

La Cieca expects that many of the cher public (pictured) will take the afternoon off for fun in the sun, but for those of you who prefer to stay in air-conditioned interior comfort, there’s chat. And this pm there’s a true embarrassment, and I’m not just talking about the Capri pants pictured above; also of…

The time has come to say “Leb wohl, du kühnes herrliches Publikum,” at least so far as the matter of the regular Saturday afternoon Met chat goes. See you all online at noon on Saturday for Die Walküre?

Tonight’s the final midweek Met chat for a while, cher public, so be sure to attend and enjoy Joyce DiDonato and company in Ariadne auf Naxos, beginning at 8:00 pm.  

It’s our last regular Saturday afternoon chat of the season today, cher public, during Ariadne auf Naxos from the Met starting at 1:00 pm.  

Won’t you join La Cieca (pictured, left) for tonight’s chat during the Met’s broadcast of Orfeo ed Euridice starting at 8:00 pm? 

Where better to be on a lovely spring afternoon that chatting about Wozzeck? Well, admittedly the subject matter doesn’t quite scream “April,” but the superb musical values of the Met’s current revival are worth yet another hearing.  For the 1:00 pm chat, details may be found after the jump.

Last minute chat tonight during Le Comte Ory, starting in about five minutes!

Renée Fleming (who will not be wearing the dress depicted, probably) leads the cast in tonight’s performance of Capriccio at the Met, and La Cieca is counting on you, the cher public, to lead the chat beginning at 8:00 pm.  

Chat tonight, naturally, during the prima of Le Comte Ory from the Met. 

While La Cieca (not pictured) is nosing about the Old World, she fully expects the rest of you to keep on chatting as necessary. A list of chat-appropriate broadcasts follows the jump.

The cher public’s final chat for the month of February concerns Iphigénie en Tauride, as heard beginning at 1:00 pm.

Instead of waiting until the last moment, La Cieca (pictured) has decided go ahead and set the dates for the remaining evening chats with the cher public (also pictured) in the month of February (not pictured).