Heir presumptive?
>Andris Nelsons has been named the new music director of the Boston Symphony.
the future
… and now the worse news
A couple of tweets from Thomas Hampson detailing some grisly-sounding future projects.
Plank your lucky stars
The next scheduled appearance of the Met’s Ring production has been canceled, as irrevocably as these things can ever be.
Dark side of the moon
Finally some video of Stefan Herheim‘s Salome production shows up on YouTube.
The case of the missing vehicle
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.
Geherheimnishehr hallt mir dein Wort
It’s not a sure thing, only a “maybe,” but it’s the most exciting Regie news La Cieca has heard all season.
Common cause
The Brooklyn Academy of Music kicks off its 2013 Next Wave Festival launches with BAM/New York City Opera co-production of Anna Nicole.
Teen spirit
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.
Pay attention to the man behind the curtain
La Cieca hears that the Met’s 2013-2014 season announcement will be made at approximately 5:00 PM today on the company’s website.
Swiss you were here
The Pierre Audi production of Guillaume Tell has opened at De Nederlandse Opera.
Somewhere there’s a blu-ray of happiness
The 2012 Bayreuth production of Parsifal directed by Stefan Herheim will be released on Blu-ray and DVD by Opus Arte in April 2013.
Transparency
Opera Teen (pictured, second from left) is not kidding us: he had an interview with Peter Gelb.
Anna macchia è qui tuttora
It’s confirmed!
Our retrospection will now be all to the future
La Cieca predicts you won’t be seeing any puritans at the Met next season, except of course for the ones who slouch around during intermission hissing, “You call that a trill?”
Scent of mystery
La Cieca has been sniffing around her generally reliable (and fragrant) sources, and she thinks she has pieced together a list of the dozen operas to be featured in the 2013-2014 season of “The Met: Live in HD.”
Red sauce
La Cieca has put her little grey cells to work and deduced that Opera Orchestra of New York will present two performances next season…
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Regie is Eurotrash.
Venerable Opera magazine had better watch its ass, since the publication’s “We Hear That” column will probably be getting a “visit” from the Met’s thugs goons legal counsel any minute now.
Season well
Overture! Light the lights! And what heights you hit indeed, cher public, in La Cieca’s “Gold Standard” competition.
More news from the future
Here La Cieca has scarcely returned home from a very pleasant concert performance of Pipe Dream (feeble show, attractive songs, fine cast) and what should she find in her inbox but an alert from the Playbill Club.
Saint Peter
La Cieca hears that for coming seasons at the Met, Peter Gelb plans to mix a little religion in with the opera, or non-opera as the case may be.
The not too distant future
The Met’s top-secret hush-hush season announcement will emerge from the Holy Grail shrine later today.
Curtain going up, or whatever it is curtains will do in the future
Will robots replace prompters? Will random number generators replace stage directors?
Broad Street Baby?
La Cieca hears that the New York City Opera is moving its administrative offices to 75 Broad Street, a location you surely remember as The International Telephone and Telegraph Building. The a 1928 structure boasts the mosaic dome glimpsed above, and (coincidentally) sits just across the street from the old Goldman Sachs building.
The Ten Percent Solution
NYCO’s George Steel has “…a vision of gradually increasing productions, arriving at 10, with 40 performances…. the company would reach the 10-production benchmark by 2025…. Only about 10 percent of revenue this season is predicted to come from the box office, with the rest mainly provided by donors. The ratio does not change much over the […]
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
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