“He towered over the listless supporting cast like Daniel Day-Lewis guest-starring in a marionette show.”
By La Cieca
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Hibla Gerzmava returns to Carnegie Hall
Grand Prix winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, soprano Hibla Gerzmava returns to Carnegie Hall, with pianist Ekaterina Ganelina, for a recital in Stern Auditorium/Perlman Stage on Friday, November 1, 2019, at 8:00 pm. Her program will feature art songs by such Russian masters as Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov and Prokofiev coupled with those by Hahn and…
Simon, Simon, Simon: how we do love you (and miss you)!
By Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin
George Gagnidze and Zeljko Lucic will share the title role of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Met this fall, replacing Simon Keenlyside…
By La Cieca
I’m a long-time fan of the Opera in English series funded by The Peter Moores Foundation that started, fittingly enough, with conductor Reginald Goodall’s performances of Wagner’s Ring cycle recorded live from the London Coliseum and released by EMI
By Patrick Mack
Celebrating Simon Keenlyside, the most popular artist on your alte Jungfer’s Mixcloud Web site.
By Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin
“Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Luca Salsi will sing the role of Rodrigo in this season’s performances of Verdi’s Don Carlo, replacing Simon Keenlyside, who has withdrawn from the run due to illness.” So says the Met’s press department.
By La Cieca
This week, Our Own Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin shares a modern classic: Wozzeck from the Opéra national de Paris, featuring Simon Keenlyside.
By La Cieca
This week, Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin has been unusually generous, sharing a performance of Pelléas et Mélisande featuring the dream pairing of Simon Keenlyside and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.
By La Cieca
Another season opens this weekend, the much-admired series of livestreams from the Bayerische Staatsoper.
By La Cieca
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.
By La Cieca
Has it been a year already? Apparently so.
By La Cieca
