Happy Birthday Maestro Wenarto
Still going strong after (approximately) 1,500 YouTube appearances, Our Own Maestro Wenarto celebrates the anniversary of his birth today.
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Happy 18th birthday, parterre box
To think, if I’d had a kid instead, he could be out there supporting me now, or at least off at college smoking dope and getting laid.
Happy Birthday Anna Netrebko
The diva, soon to open the Met season in Anna Bolena, marks the Four Oh milestone today.
Happy birthday Nico Muhly
Congratulations to the composer (Two Boys, Dark Sisters) and blogger on this day of transition from Wunderkind to Wundererwachsener. (Photo by Sam West)
Midway in My Song
La Cieca wishes you happiness today, her 35th birthday. Or, to put it more accurately, the 35th anniversary of the day La Cieca was “born,” hearing Suor Angelica sung by Renata Scotto (not pictured).
Happy Birthday Roberta Peters
The Bronx Nightingale is 81 today!
Happy Birthday Aprile Millo
The iconic American soprano was born April 14, 1958.
Happy birthday Franco Corelli
Everyone’s dream tenor was born April 8, 1921.
Happy Birthday Magda Olivero
The very best wishes to the ultimate prima donna on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of her birth!
Happy Birthday Renata Scotto
La Cieca thought she could omit birthday greetings for la Scotto this year since there was a big mention of the diva earlier this week, but the emails, IMs and, for all La Cieca knows, telegrams have been pouring in all day demanding a salute. And far be it from La Cieca to refuse the […]
Happy Birthday Renee Fleming
“The People’s Diva,” who brought so much darkness and so much hope to us in 2010, is 52 years young today!
Happy Birthday Miss Leontyne Price
The evergreen American diva was born February 10, 1927.
Happy Birthday Lisa della Casa and Martina Arroyo
Many happy returns to two big-voiced, big-haired sopranos who are still very much with us!
Happy Birthday Renata Tebaldi
The golden-voiced gay icon was born 89 years ago today.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, Octavian Maria Ehrenreich Bonaventura Fernand Hyacinth Rofrano!
Der Rosenkavalier is exactly 100 years old today, a century after the world premiere of the Strauss/Hofmannsthal comedy at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden. La Cieca invites the cher public to share favorite Rosenkavalier memories and YouTube clips.
Happy Birthday Charlie Handelman
Best birthday wishes to pirate supreme, premier podcaster and archivist of the musical sublime and ridiculous. (See below.)
Happy Birthday Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini
The opera composer and bon vivant was born December 22, 1858.
Happy Birthday Raina Kabaivanska!
The Bulgarian diva was born December 15, 1934.
Happy Birthday La fanciulla del West
La Cieca’s favorite Puccini opera premiered exactly 100 years ago tonight!
Happy Birthday Maria Callas
La Divina was born on (or about) December 3, 1923.
Happy Birthday Gaetano Donizetti
The prolific “Swan of Bergamo” (as he is almost never called) was born November 29, 1797.
Happy Birthday Leonie Rysanek
The Austrian dramatic soprano was born November 14, 1926.
Happy Birthday Dame Gwyneth Jones
The spectacular dramatic soprano was born 74 years ago today in Pontnewynydd, Wales. She is seen below in one of her less familiar (though no less effective) roles, Hanna in Die Lustige Witwe.
Happy Birthday Vincenzo Bellini
Were the Swan of Catania as immortal as his melodies, he would be would be 209 years old today! Admirers of the “King of Cantilena” are invited to follow La Cieca’s example and post YouTube clips of favorite Bellini morceaux.
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!
