parterre box » quiz http://parterre.com where opera is king and you, the readers, are queens Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:09:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 E tu nol sai? http://parterre.com/2011/02/23/e-tu-nol-sai/ http://parterre.com/2011/02/23/e-tu-nol-sai/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:32:01 +0000 La Cieca http://parterre.com/?p=19569 A mysterious lady in the shadows of Castellor! Who might she be?

Can you identify this Leonora?

D’amor sull’ali rosee

]]> http://parterre.com/2011/02/23/e-tu-nol-sai/feed/ 43 Intermission feature http://parterre.com/2010/12/15/intermission-feature/ http://parterre.com/2010/12/15/intermission-feature/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:14:57 +0000 La Cieca http://parterre.com/?p=18515 kissinger_thumbA faithful reader has just informed La Cieca that, two weeks ago at the Met, during an intermission of La bohème, he saw Henry Kissinger, “flanked by two bodyguards twice his height and twelve times his weight.” Which led this reader to pose to you, cher public, the following trivia question:

“What makes Henry Kissinger unique of all visitors to the Met this season (other than, of course, that the rest of us aren’t unindicted war criminals whose Nobel Peace Prize, in the words of Tom Lehrer, made satire obsolete)?

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