A snarky commentator might dub last night at the Met “Boris of the divo hair flip” but that would do a disservice to a serious, often effective performance of the challenging original version of Mussorgsky’s masterpiece.
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Separated at smirk: base George Sanders and bass René Pape.
Tristan has been the season-launching opera three times before now, but good luck finding someone to provide a firsthand account of the last time.
Now we have considered the three “winners” in the Tristan competition, let’s turn to the also-rans, or, to be more optimistic, the runners up.
It took the better part of a decade—including two high-profile cancelations—or New York to finally hear Anna Netrebko in recital.
So, as La Cieca understands it, this Halloween Rene Pape is going as Alice Coote disguised as Simon Le Bon playing The Joker attending a Flock of Seagulls concert.
There is something so very Don Draper about René Pape .
Wednesday brought the Met’s “real” season opener, an indelible, indispensable night at the opera: a starry revival of Verdi’s Macbeth crowned by Anna Netrebko’s demented Lady.
La Cieca has been wining, dining and otherwise wooing her Met connection (pictured above) and he (or is it she?) has come across with some tidbits about upcoming seasons at Casa Gelb.
La Cieca’s sources tell her that a planned revival of Faust at the Met in the fall of 2014 has been canceled, because who wants to see that ugly thing again, or else the leading lady didn’t feel like singing it, whichever.
La Cieca thought it would be amusing to do a bit of speculation about what’s to come as we approach the middle of the decade.
Wagner is becoming an important calling card for Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre.
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