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- TildyDiva
  Thank you rapt for this choice. I remember this - so much fun - and at a time when we all needed a real lift.
  
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- Le Petit Yniold
  London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has...
  
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- Le Petit Yniold
  I can believe that music would help.
  
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- chicagoing
  I purchased a ticket for the second performance of the Listeners in the second balcony at a discount. I was upgraded to the main floor when they decided to close off the balcony and attendance was...
  
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- oedipe
  I saw both the movie and the opera. I disliked the movie and liked the opera very much.
  
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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...
  
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- NPW--Paris
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- Dr. Hodel
  I will say the Met is transparent. I think they reveal attendence for each opera.
  
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- 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 · 3 hours 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 · 3 hours ago
- NPW--Paris
  Not so young after her sleep, though.
  
  Humdrum existence · 3 hours 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 · 3 hours ago
- Le Petit Yniold
  Ah! A life crowded with incident, I see; though perhaps somewhat too exciting for a young girl.
  
  Humdrum existence · 3 hours 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 · 3 hours ago
- GCMP
  yes, that was a phenomenal night at the opera!
  
  Bachelor party · 3 hours 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...
  
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- Sanford Schimel
  Did anyone see her in Maria Stuarda in Baltimore recently?
  
  A favorite Donizetti performance from rapt · 4 hours 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 · 4 hours 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 · 4 hours ago

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Chained melody

La Cieca’s spies in Dresden report that there were HD cameras aplenty in the Semperoper at Wednesday night’s performance of Lohengrin.

By La Cieca on May 27, 2016 at 12:33 PM

Le cirque des étoiles

Le cirque des étoiles

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Le cirque des étoiles

Of all films to be adapted into operas, 1967’s Berserk! seems a most unlikely choice.

By La Cieca on March 03, 2016 at 8:56 AM

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Trivium pursuit

By La Cieca on November 12, 2011 at 11:26 AM

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Busting out all over

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Skating on the Nile?

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That Touch of Munk

By La Cieca on April 10, 2010 at 4:30 PM

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magic to do

By La Cieca on April 24, 2009 at 8:14 AM

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love that hercules

By La Cieca on January 28, 2009 at 9:45 AM

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molto legato

By La Cieca on October 06, 2008 at 11:47 AM

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video killed the opera star?

By La Cieca on June 12, 2008 at 9:09 PM

Questo e Quello, scandale

shabby little shocker

By La Cieca on May 30, 2008 at 11:37 AM

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old school

By La Cieca on May 21, 2008 at 11:46 AM

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the leggy libertine

By La Cieca on February 12, 2008 at 12:47 PM

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