That midnight kiss
A challenging Salome-themed vocal identification quiz arranged by Our Own Christopher Corwin.
competition
Sausendes, brausendes Rad der Zeit
At long last, cher public, a finale to our Senta’s Ballad quiz, nearly a month late! The name of the winner and the complete lists of sopranos after the jump.
Spin the dial
After the jump, a quiz featuring 15 singers performing Senta’s Ballad.
Baton vs. glass ceiling
The Dallas Opera is delighted to announce that applications are now being accepted for a unique residential program designed to provide training and career support for distinctively talented women conductors.
Panel stumped
La Cieca admits she was surprised the historically well-informed cher public missed the mark so frequently on the “Breadbox” quiz.
Reminder: predict the Met’s 2017-2018 casting and win big!
The Met Casting for 2017-2018 competition closes at 10:00 AM tomorrow (Wednesday).
Cast thy breadbox upon the waters
What better time for a competition in which you, the cher public (pictured), attempt to predict the future?
Ah! Manon, mi tradisce
Our Own Chris Corwin (not pictured) has taken a peek at the current guesses for the “Sola perduta” quiz and notes that fewer than half of the selections offered have been correctly identified.
La deserta donna
La Cieca hopes the cher public won’t let poor Manon Lescaut get too lonely out there in the bayou or the heath or whatever it is, because you’ll want stay close to listen to our latest Identification Quiz, 15 sopranos in full hysterical wail.
Chiamo il mio ben così
Congratulations to Leitbreite, whose cunning ears identified all but one of the singers in last week’s “Orpheus” quiz.
Moor than expected
La Cieca guesses we will have to make these quizzes more challenging.
Before sunset
In honor of the upcoming Met Opening Night, here’s a singer identification quiz featuring, for a change, music for a tenor: the climactic phrase from Otello’s third act monologue.
Des Goldes Schmuck schmähte er nicht…
The clear winner of the “Dinner for Schmuck” competition is DharmaBray‘s succulent menu.
Dinner for schmuck
In celebration of the impending retirement of San Francisco Opera’s head honcho David Gockley, La Cieca proposed a quick midweek competition, with a first prize of not having dinner with San Francisco Opera’s head honcho David Gockley.
Triskaidekaphilia
Your task: name the Ortruds, all unlucky 13 of them.
All futures great and small
The Metropolitan Opera yesterday afternoon was an uncommonly cozy place, as the auditorium was packed to the rafters with friends and family members of the nine National Council Audition Finalists.
They’re only in it for the do
What with all the interest in the recent Rome performances of Aïda (and in part, at least, in Anja Harteros‘s approach to the high C in the Nile aria), La Cieca thought it would be fun to hear how some divas of the past and present have coped with that very challenging phrase. And, just […]
Thanks a lot, but…
Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin (not pictured) congratulates Countervail for the best attempt at identifying the “Brass Divas.”
Fans de siècle
As if listening live to tonight’s gala Met premiere of Die Fledermaus were not frivolity sufficient unto the end of the calendar year, La Cieca and Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin (pictured above, in no particular order) offer an alternative version of Strauss’s operetta for your amusement.
Dimples of iron
Well done, rgz: your Photoshop of the Guilty Pleasures CD cover was just exactly right!
No Posa ability
Not perhaps as enthusiastic a response as La Cieca might have liked to the recent Posa quiz, and no official winner.
V for Violetta
ollowing La Cieca’s meager example above, the cher public are encouraged to devise images of album covers based on Renée Fleming’s Guilty Pleasures
CD.
Strike a Posa
It’s just a teensy bit late for Verdi’s birthday, but La Cieca thinks you’ll enjoy the latest vocal ID challenge, cher public.
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
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).
