An “Anti-Harassment Workshop” was scheduled at the Met today in the same room where Plácido Domingo was rehearsing for this season’s revival of Macbeth.
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Opera, Food and Wine in Northern Italy – May 2020
The highlights of this nine-day, ten-person tour will be Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re at La Scala in a new production by Spanish director Àlex Ollé, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in Turin and Weill’s Mahagonny in Reggio Emilia, plus the Pavarotti Museum in Modena. Visit: Rick Perdian-Travel & Music.
Karita Mattila has just rather casually let slip that she has “signed in for [her] first Isolde.”
By La Cieca
A “spy” unaffiliated with parterre box whispers to La Cieca that yesterday’s dress rehearsal of Samson et Dalila at the Met was sung by Nancy Fabiola Herrera.
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The third segment of New York City Opera’s gradually emerging 2018-2019 season will be Mascagni’s Isabeau.
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Today, the New York Times offers the strongest suggestion yet that Cecilia Bartoli will bring her Norma to New York sooner rather than later.
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Cher public, you knew La Cieca would come through for you, didn’t you? So hurry past the jump and give a listen.
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La Cieca will go out on limb and predict that the Met’s new music director will be Yannick Nezet-Seguin.
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La Cieca has discovered that the independent auditor chosen by the Met, AGMA and Local 802 to report on the company’s finances, Eugene Keilin, is a major donor to the Met, giving at least $25,000 in 2011-2012 according to that season’s Annual Report.
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Peter Gelb says the Ring will definitely not return, as originally planned, in 2017, and where has La Cieca heard that before?
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