Broadcast: Les Vêpres siciliennes
Live from the Bayerische Staatsoper, a live video webcast of Les Vêpres siciliennes begins a 1:00 PM New York time.
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Broadcast: Elektra
The melee in Mycenae returns for listening and discussion starting at 1:00 PM!
Broadcast: Così fan tutte
That’s how they’re going to do it tonight, starting at 7:25 PM.
Broadcast: Madama Butterfly
The controversial heroine of Ermonela Jaho sings, with the opera beginning at 1:00 PM.
Broadcast: Semiramide
Make an Assyrian of yourself tonight starting at 7:25 PM!
Broadcast: Il trovatore
Yet another whack at Trovatore tonight starting at 7:25, cher public!
Broadcast: La bohème
The debut of soprano Angel Blue is but one highlight of tonight’s live broadcast from the Met.
Puzza la tela dipinta
This afternoon the Royal Opera House offers a first glimpse of Richard Jones‘ new production of La bohème, the first at that theater since about 1735 or so.
Broadcast: Turandot
Lise Lindstrom and Roberto Alagna (not pictured) head the cast of the Royal Opera House’s Turandot.
Public enemy
Mary Zimmerman explains (more or less) “what’s wrong with opera audiences?”
To tell the truth
Four of La Cieca’s favorite people, Diana Soviero, Ira Siff, Robert Lombardo and Ken Benson, assemble on November 9 at the impressively named “Metropolitan Opera Guild Learning Center”…
The Celluloid Muse
So how about another angle on Mawrdew Czgowchwz? Since, at the end of the novel, the eponymous oltrano decides to take a brief hiatus from her métier of “musicry” to star in motion picture, how about we produce (in the boundless realm of imagination) a film based on the McCourt novel? Above, La Cieca’s nominee […]
You know we’ve got Regie in the cellar?
The premiere of a new production of Lohengrin at Bayreuth is obviously this week’s hot topic. La Cieca suggests we continue on this thread thd discussion that began elsewhere on parterre.com and is also raging over at opera-l. (La Cieca invites the cher public and visitors to post links from other sites as well where […]
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).
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!
