![]() La Cieca hesitates to jump to the conclusion that this one performance indicates an inevitable downward spiral toward ruin for Ms. She did have a minor crack on the high D in her first cadenza, and for most of the performance her voice sounded a bit cloudy and thick compared to what La Cieca (and, you, of course, cher public) have heard on Sirius and in the theater earlier this season. Netrebko was admittedly somewhat off her best form at the beginning of the opera. ![]() La Cieca regards herself as a very critical listener, but she simply cannot discern any "debacle" or even "failure" in last week's Roméo performance. On the other hand, La Cieca has her doubts that everybody over at opera-l shares her sense of light-hearted irony in these things. The Roméo et Juliette has been called "failure" and even (yes!) "debacle." Admittedly, La Cieca occasionally amuses herself by throwing those terms (including the "d" word) around indiscriminately, but she has the defense that nobody with half a brain takes her babbling seriously anyway. (Some of them predate Texaco, La Cieca thinks.) Anyway, the consensus over at opera-l is that Netrebko is kaput, over, finished - that is, assuming she was ever anything to start with. La Cieca should remind herself that much of this accidie springs from opera-l, which most of the time is a valuable resource and all that, but it does seem to be a haven for every tongue-clucking old maid still hunched over her Philco every Saturday afternoon during the broadcast season. Even La Cieca's own bitchery about Renée Fleming never (well, rarely) reached such heights of dudgeon. Such harsh criticism La Cieca has rarely heard since the infamous Renata Scotto Norma. ![]() This particular specimen of Apis mellifera is the "debacle" (as La Cieca has been astonished to see it termed) of Anna Netrebko's Juliette last Saturday afternoon. ![]() Cher public, La Cieca meant to turn in early tonight, but she got one of those bees in her bonnet.
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