Now, you would think nothing could please gaycentric La Cieca more than yesterday’s New York Times profile of the Met’s new music director…
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“Remember where you are. This is Adriana Lecouvreur. Death is listening, and will take the first diva that screams.”
Roberto Alagna’s physical and vocal embodiment of Don José lent his particular narrative a complication I hadn’t anticipated.
At tonight’s performance of Aida at the Met, the Triumphal Scene horses suddenly panicked and tried to bolt from the stage. I can’t say I blame them.
Use bodily force and get your friends to one of the next five performances of the Met’s new production of Adriana Lecouvreur. It is everything!
Ambrogio Maestri IS Queen Anne in The Favourite!
Heretofore I’d avoided the Met’s abridged, English-language holiday presentations.
Hear and discuss the condensed-for-kids version tonight at 7:30.
At Friday’s opening of Otello, there was a good deal of interesting going on, though not all of it necessarily onstage.
La Cieca invites the cher public (not pictured) to hear and discuss this afternoon’s broadcast of La traviata from the Met.
The long evening didn’t achieve the degree of celebration it should have.
Your doyenne’s origin myth must always be understood to begin with the bite of a radioactive soprano way back in 1976.
Diana Damrau‘s performance as Violetta was the work of a very ordinary artist, one susceptible to vocal flubs, poor intonation, and an all too banal approach operatic performance.
For your listening and discussing pleasure, cher public: the opening night of the Met’s new Traviata.
Today at 1:00 PM, Boito’s Mefistofele kicks off the Met’s 88th year of live Saturday broadcasts over the Toll Brothers–Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network.
The proceedings took the virtue of longevity too much to heart; the night stretched on interminably.
Alexander Birch Elliott‘ s dynamic if gauche Zurga added some pizzazz to an otherwise bland evening.
At 7:30 this PM, join the parterrians to hear and to discuss the Met’s broadcast of this gorgeous Bizet score.
There are shows with iconic characters, and there are shows with iconic characters playing iconic characters.
Too bad, then, that this season’s tossed flower was a bit of a wilted one.
Jonas Kaufmann‘s Herbstreise to Little Old New York dominated the busy pages of October’s parterre box, boosting our total number of pageviews to nearly 400,000.
Bizet returns to the Met tonight at 7:30, and it’s broadcast live!
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