Bearded Lady

For my fellow Podlesians, especially those who travel more than I do, Operabase has that great lady singing what I'd think is a role debut, Baba the Turk, in Madrid next January. Also of note: the following month she will sing Azucena (not a role debut, but something we'd have been lucky to hear earlier in the game) in Atlanta. No, seriously, Atlanta. Meanwhile the Met is offering her the comprimaria role of La Cieca, he sniffed, though with every intention of going often to hear it.