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Here’s the place for all your chatting needs, cher public, during tonight’s broadcast of Elektra from the Met. The official chat begins ...

A new production of Verdi’s Macbeth? At the Wiener Staatsoper? At a 192 Euro top? And this is what you get? “Vieni, ...

From deep in the parterre cellar, a glimpse of a long ago Met Hoffmann. Vina Bovy as Antonia “Elle a fui, la tourterelle” ...

Here’s the place for all your chatting needs, cher public, during tonight’s broadcast of Les Contes d’Hoffmann from the ...

After seeing a video excerpt from the Met’s Patrice Chéreau production of From the House of the Dead, I was struck by the cleanness of ...

La Cieca invites all the cher public to a troika of talk during tonight’s Met season premiere of Il trittico. The performance begins ...

Colombetta, Colombetta, Apri l’uscio, non farmi penar Del balcon solleva il velo Apri amor se no qui gelo Colombetta, ...

La Cieca invites all you Deadheads to chat during tonight’s Met season premiere of From the House of the Dead. The chat begins at ...

An old clip, from 2005 in fact, but oddly prescient, perhaps. Who knew that Les vêpres siciliennes could sound so much like Verismo? Not ...

Of course, there were also setbacks along the road to success. During a performance of “La Traviata” in Genoa conducted by ...

A preview of sorts of next season’s Met production of Armida. This is Herself, as heard  last week in Prague. “D’amor ...

La forza del destino from the New Orleans Opera (1953) continues on Unnatural Acts of Opera. Meanwhile, La Cieca comments about all that ...