La Cieca hopes that you, the cher public, will generously share your off-topic and general interest discussion with tout le monde.

La Cieca hopes that even the less celebrated attendees at this week’s intermission feature will feel free to commment on off-topic and general interest subjects.

La Cieca trust that you, the cher public, will don your finest festoonery for this week’s discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

Though our gypsy friend Carmen may not puff cigarettes in Australia, nothing will prevent the cher public from blowing smoke about off-topic and general interest subjects.

You, the cher public (pictured) have spoken, and La Cieca is happy to reinstate this weekly posting where you are invited to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.

As the New York season starts, cher public, here is your refuge where you may discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.

Even bonbons are not as delicious as the weekly discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

Parterrians are advised to gather together their parures, aigrettes and lorngettes and saunter back to their loges, because it’s time for discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

Now that we have the good news (or anyway the goodish news) that the Met’s season will continue apace, let’s unbend a bit, cher public, and discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.

The parterrians are invited to put the internecine squabbling on hold for a while, the better to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.

While we’re waiting for the webcast from Glyndebourne, cher public (and afterward, of course) please talk quietly among yourselves about off-topic and general interest subjects.

Whilst the theatrical doctor attempts to restore the voice of Mrs. Billington, you, the cher public, are asked to fill up the time with discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

No need to crowd, cher public: there’s plenty of room for everyone to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.

La Cieca would never kid you, cher public: it’s that time of the week when we discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.

La Cieca admits she has nothing prepared, so you, the cher public, will have to keep yourselves amused with discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

Take advantage of this brief interval, cher public, to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.

Please forgive La Cieca’s tardiness this week, cher public, but she had a major snafu with her toilette.

La Cieca suggests the cher public kick off this week’s round of off-topic and general interest discussion with a little speculation as to which of Grace Moore‘s repertoire of operatic roles Miss Kathryn Grayson is enacting on this poster.

La Cieca (pictured) is hard at work creating interesting new content for the upcoming week at parterre.com, but in the meantime she urges you to talk among yourselves about off-topic and general interest subjects.

The Met season may (just) be over, but it’s always the right time for discussion of off-topic and general interest subjects.

Let’s all let down our hair, cher public, those of us for whom this feat is possible, and discuss general interest and off-topic subjects.