Gummidämmerung

Bayreuth scion Katharina Wagner treats her choristers well. When they complained about getting soaked with stage blood, she bought them all latex panties at sex shop Beate Uhse. [n-tv]

Hope?

Which diva, whose performance of the first act is admittedly note-perfect, is making management lose sleep because she's hasn't yet attempted the second or third? (Maybe they're worried she won't cancel.)

Will the dancing Marguerites please wait in the wings?

P.S. The old site will be back tomorrow, promise!

Strange bedfellows

From the Orders Report for La Cieca's Amazon store for October 23, 2009:

And a reminder, cher public, even though La Cieca is coming to you from an alien server until tomorrow, the Little Shop of Arias is still in business.