La Cieca (pictured) is thrilled to announce the debut of a new online book club hosted by Norman Lebrecht of “Slipped Disc” fame.
What? No detailed review delivered fresh to their 5-year-old at home? Imagine! But what I'm really trying to imagine is my parents giving their 15-year-old tickets to see anyone...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 4 minutes ago
I don't get this--why admiring a singer based only on recordings is necessarily a sign of a fad. If so, I have a similar faddish admiration for Bergonzi, Corelli, Schipa, and a number of...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille · 4 minutes ago
someone on twitter said this show looks and sounds like a cutaway gag on 30 Rock -- seems like that about sums it up
Definitely old school. 1980's and early 90's
Exactly. It looks to me like the recent Parterre infatuation with Vanzo is more of a fad than a result of personal experience. Not that he wasn’t quite good, but that people here didn’t have much...
Hahahaha!! Sort of like Samson. We can only hope and pray! This time I’ll see it. Didn’t see the first two acts when we went last time. I bow my head and accept my fate about La Watusi. At least...
Camille!!!!!!!! I wanted to post this! I was about to make the submission :) I saw her live in 2001 in Bologna in this.
Shoulda won for *Third Man*! Schade.
Now THAT'S a Te Deum!
Then — Thank your Mother for me for not only having good sense but good taste. She must still have had quite a lot of force and ability left at that time to pull those both off, I must say. They’re...
PB is a great place to read exciting and enjoy riveting reviews and overall stimulating conversations. Many thanks Mister Snow for the presenting the continuing conversation after the Carousel...
You called?
We needed you yesterday, when the subject of modern architecture in Genova was raised.
Thank you for the post. Wonderful performance. My first Lucrezia was Beverly Sills. I fell in love with the opera and thought she was exciting. I grew up with NYCO. I first saw her Stuarda at the...
It was Constantine Orbelian and his then Moscow Chamber Orchestra who presented the Medée at Carnegie Hall. Irini Tsirakidis had plenty of oomph as Ermione in a blazing concert version. By the time...
A favorite Donizetti performance from Harry Rose · 1 hour ago
Vanzo didn't sing that much outside of France-- just one Wiener Staatsoper show, for example, a 1966 Rodolfo opposite Pilou, Holm and Sereni, which must have been pleasant but not the right...
NIGEL
All I think of when I see Lucrezia mentioned ;-)
Well, they loved his recordings when I played them to them later but had no specific recollection of him in 1965-- they certainly didn't about that performance when I was 5! But maybe 10 years...
The 1971 JOHNNY JOHNSON revival's requisite opera singer was NYCO bass-baritone James Billings.
I just know him from clips and recording. And just love his voice. I saw him in Scottsboro Boys and he blew me away. Also, in Porgy and Bess. And I saw him in a Stephen Schwartz concert at The Met...
La Cieca (pictured) is thrilled to announce the debut of a new online book club hosted by Norman Lebrecht of “Slipped Disc” fame.
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
“The island is only small / But the fairies inhabiting it / Welcome us all”
That means you—and your even more significant other—should you win this pair of seats. Enter now »
“The island is only small / But the fairies inhabiting it / Welcome us all”
That means you—and your even more significant other—should you win this pair of seats. Enter now »
Yannick leads The Philadelphia Orchestra, superstars Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, and world-class singers in a rare concert performance that reveals every detail and nuance of this richly harmonic score. Experience the passion and cold-hearted revenge of this scandalous opera. Get tickets now!
Yannick leads The Philadelphia Orchestra, superstars Nina Stemme and Stuart Skelton, and world-class singers in a rare concert performance that reveals every detail and nuance of this richly harmonic score. Experience the passion and cold-hearted revenge of this scandalous opera. Get tickets now!
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