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It is what she would have wanted

by La Cieca | 5:00 pm | Nov 13, 2012

spacer Due to wellness, it is with deep contentedness that Marina Poplavskaya will after all dance the ballet of “The Red Shoes” sing the role of Alice in Robert le Diable at the Royal Opera contrary to the earlier announcement of a cast change.

Tags: "due to wellness", cancellation, marina poplavskaya, not so fast!, ze red schuss
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Small scale

by La Cieca | 12:47 am | Nov 13, 2012

spacer In art, less is more — at least most of the time. But Dicapo Opera’s presentation of The Martyrs is a little more less than ideal. [New York Post]

Tags: catherine malfitano, dicapo opera, new york post, our own jj, review
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Gould standard

by Adriel | 9:42 pm | Nov 12, 2012

spacer spacer Midway through his traversal of Wagner’s 10 mature operas for PentaTone, we’ve learned this about Marek Janowski: The no-nonsense maestro puts clarity and detail above the saturated sound and expressive phrasing many conductors employ to capture these works’ mysticism and grandeur.

It’s an approach seems less than ideal for Tristan und Isolde, an opera filled with ambiguities whose fabric fairly ripples with expressions of erotic desire. But Janowski’s newly releasedspacer March 2012 concert performance with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and its chorus turns out to be the best installment in the series to date, a study in canny pacing and dramatic shadings with a top-notch cast led by Nina Stemme and Stephen Gould. Read more »

Tags: cd, review
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I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy

by La Cieca | 4:12 pm | Nov 12, 2012

Freud, who hails from London, spent five years as the general director of Houston Grand Opera and is no stranger to bolo ties and 10-gallon Stetsons.

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Tags: drag, lyric opera of chicago
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Swedish frisson

by La Cieca | 11:15 pm | Nov 11, 2012

Last week’s freak nor’easter set the tone for Thursday’s chilly new production of Un Ballo in Maschera at the Met.

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Tags: david alden, new york post, our own jj, review, the met
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Balance of tiara

by La Cieca | 1:07 am | Nov 11, 2012

Gather around, cher public (pictured), to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects in this weeks’ Intermission Feature.

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Tags: intermission feature
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I’ve been working on the regie road

by La Cieca | 4:57 am | Nov 10, 2012

Remember, remember, the first of November, the Occupy regie and quiz!

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Tags: regie quiz
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One Saturday in November

by Betsy Ann Bobolink | 12:46 am | Nov 10, 2012

My figures show it’s still too early to call Ohio, but other races are more decisive.

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Tags: chat
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