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- oedipe
  I know that for The Exterminating Angel the ONP offered 2 tickets for the price of 1. I went to see it once before the discount and the house was about 2 thirds full. I took advantage of the offer...
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 minute ago
- NPW--Paris
  Humdrum existence · 30 minutes ago
- Dr. Hodel
  I will say the Met is transparent. I think they reveal attendence for each opera.
  
  Humdrum existence · 33 minutes ago
- GCMP
  Re: Boheme. Lyric just did 10 performances and 9 apparently sold out (not sure about any discounts). The Listeners seemed to sell so badly they gave main floor tickets to some people from the...
  
  Humdrum existence · 47 minutes ago
- GCMP
  This would indeed be fascinating to know. I have never seen such numbers at Lyric Opera. Lately the Met seems to give the NYT tidbits that show their modern opera don't generally pull in as much of...
  
  Humdrum existence · 50 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  Not so young after her sleep, though.
  
  Humdrum existence · 59 minutes ago
- NPW--Paris
  I might have mentioned that, like several composers of these frivolous works, Fourdrain was an organist. Premier Prix du Conservatoire (in Widor’s class) and already at 17, titular organist of the...
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  Ah! A life crowded with incident, I see; though perhaps somewhat too exciting for a young girl.
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  You are right, but I would guess that characters are more important than sumptuous melodies. There are other ways for music to make an impact, if is suffiiciently well integrated with character and...
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- GCMP
  yes, that was a phenomenal night at the opera!
  
  Bachelor party · 1 hour ago
- NPW--Paris
  I should have made it explicit. Cinderella is a kind of thread holding the tales together. She's nearly wed by Bluebeard, meets Little Red Riding Hood and Puss in boots, gets disguised as Peau...
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- Sanford Schimel
  Did anyone see her in Maria Stuarda in Baltimore recently?
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from rapt · 1 hour ago
- NPW--Paris
  I'm afraid that at my age, the chances of your arousing my interest in either the large or small screen are slim.
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- Belfagor
  Quite agree: I saw a rather good BBC adaptation of George Eliot’s fascinating ‘Daniel Deronda’ recently: when I subsequently read the book the TV version then resembled Cliff Notes for an ADHD...
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- NPW--Paris
  Too late: tonight's the last night. But he could catch it later in Tourcoing, if it isn’t sold out, as it was in Paris. Good excuse to visit Lille and the swimming-pool museum in Roubaix. The...
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  Oh, now I get the reference. It's not one of my brighter days.
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  I have a good friend who is in Paris working on a masters in French. His specialization is theatre (he has had a career as an actor) so he has been seeing a lot of plays. I will make him aware of...
  
  Humdrum existence · 1 hour ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. The classic Brideshead Revisited (the one with Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Nicholas Grace...) is quite wonderful, and...
  
  Humdrum existence · 2 hours ago
- Rick
  Does any of you know when Mr Seiffert performed for the last time?
  
  Peter Seiffert 1954-2025 · 2 hours ago
- Gualtier Maldè
  Also a mention of Franz Grundheber who is currently 87 and sang Schigolch at the Met at age 77 in 2015. I caught the cinema HD repeat and Herr Grundheber was in the audience taking in his own...
  
  Bachelor party · 2 hours ago

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“…purely coincidental and not intended”

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Puff piece

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Where your hard-earned donations to NYCO go, part who knows I’ve lost track

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Century of progress?

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Tout gai!

By La Cieca on March 02, 2010 at 11:16 PM

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A gala day is enough for me

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Sock’s appeal

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NYCO “severely curtailing” fall season

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The Man with the Golden Ear

By La Cieca on December 01, 2009 at 8:36 AM

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happy birthday susan baker

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nyco roundup

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loose lips

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