Chat rebels
La Cieca invites her comrades to join her in the struggle that will be the chat during this afternoon’s performance of Nixon in China, starting at 1:00 pm.
Chat
One more time
Gather around to chat tonight, cher public, during yet another La boheme.
Doge ball
As La Cieca always so magnanimously says, “E vo gridando: pace! E vo gridando: chat!” The subject of today’s discussion is Simon Boccanegra, live from the Met at 1:00 pm.
Chat has a kind of mystery
La Cieca (not pictured) invites the cher public to a meeting of the minds this evening at 8:00 pm during the Metropolitan Opera premiere of Nixon in China.
Sondra! Sondra! Sondra!
Today’s afternoon chat should be a special treat for the legions of Radvandovskyites out there in Extended Parterriana. The Tosca palaver will begin at 1:00 pm.
What chat?
La Cieca has (all together now) a hunch that the cher public would enjoy discussing this afternoon’s performance of Rigoletto during the Met broadcast beginning at 1:00 pm. Details after the jump.
Chat people
Tonight’s Met season premiere of Simon Boccanegra promises to offer far more than mere B-movie thrills. Cher plebe! Cher patrizi! You’re invited to a chat beginning at 8:00 pm!
Get your frock on
La Cieca (pictured) invites the cher public (also pictured) to a chat this afternoon at 1:00 PM EST during the Met broadcast of La traviata (likewise pictured). Details follow the jump!
Sondra, finalmente nostra!
UPDATE: “Roberto Alagna will make his Met role debut as Cavaradossi in tonight’s opening performance of Tosca, replacing Marcelo Álvarez, who withdrew this afternoon due to the lingering effects of a cold.” Whoever her tenor might be, the occasion of parterriani fave Sondra Radvanovksy‘s first Met Tosca calls for dancing in the streets, drinking in […]
Minnie, della mia chat son partito
La Cieca welcomes “the boys” (and girls, too!) to a chat during this afternoon’s broadcast of La fanciulla del West from the Met. The first shot will be fired at 1:00 pm precisely!
On a brisé la glace avec des chats rougis!
La Cieca (not pictured) reminds the cher public that the first chat of 2011 will begin at noon today at La Casa della Cieca. Details on Pelléas et Mélisande after the jump.
We’ll take a chat o’ kindness yet
As La Cieca (pictured, alas) whoops it up somewhere in the vicinity of Lincoln Center tonight, she hopes that you, the cher public, will at least kick off your festivities with a chat during tonight’s Met prima of La traviata, beginning at 7:00 pm. Details after the jump.
Chat in the afternoon
At long last, the Met Saturday afternoon broadcasts begin again today with Don Carlo at 12:30 PM. What better way to spend a lazy winter afternoon than with Margaret, Ira, and a chat in La Casa della Cieca?
Tre assi e un chat
Before retiring for the season (because the Met broadcasts start next week, and not because of those rumors of “vocal crises”) our own Betsy (pictured) was quoted as saying, “Haiku, huh? Pretty high-falutin’, if ya ask me. I am but a simple, voluptuous frontier maiden who gets her jollies by reading Bible stories to a […]
Chat, don’t tell
With Betsy Ann pulling a Gheorghiu, the lovely and talented M. Croche leaps once more into the b(r)each, saying, “Once again it’s time for the Saturday Opera-Bash. Hai-ku’ed up this week are…”
Doorbuster chat
You’ve survived the crowds of Black Friday, but can you face the terrors of Decorator Beige Saturday? Huge savings in every department.
Chat down
Whom would you prefer to pat down at an airline security check-in?
A night at Trovatore
La Cieca (left, seated) invites the cher public (center) to gather at La Cieca’s Gypsy Camp for a chat during tonight’s Met performance of Il trovatore this evening beginning at 8:00 pm. Details after the jump.
Hind sight
In the words of La Cieca’s old, old, old friend Mrs. Malaprop, “We will not anticipate the past, our retrospection will now be all to the future.” And that’s where our chat will be as well, if dear Betsy has anything to do with it.
Event horizon
No, the above image is not from Sunday’s upcoming First Ever East Coast Parterre Meet and Greet, but rather dear Mr. Hogarth’s take on “The Rake’s Progress.” A more modern treatment of theme of the dissolute punished (the Stravinsky opera, La Cieca means) will be yours to enjoy via the magic of webcasting tomorrow night […]
Cosi corner
On behalf of (left to right) Miah Persson, Pavol Breslik, Isabel Leonard and Nathan Gunn, your doyenne invites the cher public to gather at La Cieca’s Dream House for a chat during the prima of the Met’s Così fan tutte this evening beginning at 8:00 pm. Details after the jump.
The Lady In The Tutti Frutti Chat
Betsy (pictured) writes: Some people say I dress too gay, But ev’ry day, I feel so gay; And when I’m gay, I dress that way, Is something wrong with that?
La chat que tu m’avais jetée
Attention gamins, cigarières, picadors, and other drôles de gens: the time approaches for our weekly evening live chat. And this time La Cieca remembered! The opera is Carmen, the start time is 8:00 pm, and le programme avec les détails follows the jump.
Trick or chat
Once again, La Cieca can do no better than to quote the ineffable BAB, who says, “The beauty of the Saturday afternoon Chats this summer has been that everyone picks what they want and then we compare notes with what’s happening elsewhere. Ordinarily I make no recommendations, but I have decided to do things differently […]
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).
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