For the busy month of October (nearly 300,000 pageviews and an astonishingly sticky 3:19 average session duration!) La Cieca (not pictured) is elated to announce that parterre box published some of its most popular posts ever. The breakdown is after the jump.

1. Renée! F!
2. Dmitri Hvorostovsky is alive, his wife assures us
3. Turandon’t
4. A voice that must be heard
5. Untouched by an ‘Angel’
6. Peter Gelb admits defeat
7. No fits, no fights, no feuds and no egos
8. Cervelli! Cervelli!
9. Sgombra è la sacra megaplex
10. Reason to believe (tie)
    Eternal, feminine (tie)