Okay, it’s not too late to sneak in a little douche before the New Year. You know C.C.’s pet peeve is lazy critics, and arts writers who think they’re too above general standards of journalism to be bothered with reporting seriously on the arts. So, when we read Anne Midgette’s year-end wrap-up–all six slender paragraphs–supposedly explicating a list of potential future stars of the opera stage, we were compelled to smack Midgette with a douche for leaving out like, totally awesome people, and devoting way too much time to the Anna Nebtrenko, who we’re totally over hearing about (and we haven’t even heard her…yet).  With so little space (we know editors determine word count) why waste time on the most obvious drama in opera?

What about fresh voiced starlette-to-be Lisette Oropesa, or bubble-butted tenor, Brandon Jovanovich?  Or the awsome debuts by hardcore hopefulls Vanke Vondung, Alexej Markov and Marina Poplavskaya? Or even Nancy Allen Lundy, the lone shining star in Tan Dun’s “The Gate” at BAM?

There were like, so many things she could have picked to plug, and you know The Midge sees way more shit than we do.  So what gives? A case of the last-minute ommisions? Or just bad journalism?