November 2006
parterre box fave Dame Gwyneth Jones is 70 today. Here’s a clip from her legendary Elektra. And here’s more of the magnificent Dame G. on YouTube.
Juan Diego Flórez, who — if this costume design is to be believed– is planning to play Almaviva as a gay pirate, will headline a mini-company from the Met appearing on “Late Night with David Letterman” tomorrow night, November 8, 2006, at 11:35 p.m., ET, on CBS. The boyish Rossini tenor and his colleagues Diana…
Quello, as a matter of fact, because Marcello Giordani is going on tonight as the Duke in Rigoletto at the Met, jumping in for Joseph Calleja. It’s on Sirius, of course.
parterre box salutes Dame Joan Sutherland on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of her birth, November 7, 2006. The tribute on Unnatural Acts of Opera includes a series of podcasts featuring a complete performance of Massenet’s Esclarmonde, plus video highlights from I puritani, Lucia di Lammermoor, La fille du Regiment, Anna Bolena, Alcina and…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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