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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).

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dick or no dick?

In what will probably stand in history as her most wrong-headed judgment call ever, on December 24 La Cieca concluded that George Steel would not accept an offer from the New York City Opera. Your doyenne cited two reasons for her position: first, that the job wouldn’t have much in the way of art to […]

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Sono vecchia diggia

The very first issue of parterre box (the queer opera zine) was published on December 3, 1993, the 70th anniversary of the of birth Maria Callas.  And so that must mean that parterre box is exactly 15 years old today! To kick off what La Cieca devoutly hopes will be festivities, here is an interview […]

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