Some of you may remember a few weeks ago comments veered off into a discussion of relative sizes of 19th century theaters vs. modern opera houses and, specifically, the issue of a stage apron, a playing area that extended past the proscenium into the auditorium proper, therefore allowing singers to take advantage of warmer acoustics…
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La Cieca is going to bid farewell to Prima Donna and Rufus Wainwright, for the moment anyway. But before you doyenne actually, you know, goes (i.e., “ma tu ben mio, meco ritorna in pace”) she’s just going to say this: A piece like Prima Donna is exactly the sort of thing (or at least one…
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