The expression “gayer than eight guys fucking nine guys” gets thrown around a lot these days, though perhaps not as often as it is presently at the Händel-Festspiele des Badischen Staatstheaters Karlsruhe. Read more »
This is such natural casting La Cieca is ashamed she didn’t think of it earlier: Jakub Józef Orlinski as Harry Potter! Read more »
One of Our Own JJ‘s first mentors discovered this YouTube clip of Donna Murphy, exclaiming, “Use this when you are trying to explain what ‘personality’ means in the theater. She makes it into a mash-up of Cours-la-Reine and ‘A Great Lady Has An Interview’.” Read more »
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To those of you who have may recently have read about the birth of parterre box 25 years ago, a reminder that your doyenne’s origin myth must always be understood to begin with the bite of a radioactive soprano way back in 1976.
The ever-astonishing Cecilia Bartoli riffs on the Gershwins’ “Summertime.”
Ardent, astonishing, animated Anthony Roth Costanzo has just unveiled the music video for “Vivi, tiranno.”
La Cieca wishes to be among the first to congratulate Jessye Norman, who has emerged from semi-retirement to leap upon the musical theater bandwagon.
Here’s a set of comments that I think really captures the duality of YouTube — two criticisms of Jonas Kaufmann. I won’t say which I personally find more valid!
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