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  • grimoaldo: Wagner called his mature stage works “The Art Form of the Future”, and Wagner’s... 8:14 PM
  • grimoaldo: “I remember Levine sending a message through Max Epstein to linger more on O sag’, Vater! Sieh... 8:07 PM
  • luvtennis: Kashie: Also, when I refer Wagner, I am referring both to his own artistic output, but also his... 8:07 PM
  • Leopold Rudolph von Schwanzenbad-Hodenthaler: I agree with Will, I didn’t find the McVicar vapid at all. I... 7:55 PM
  • luvtennis: Thank you! See I am not always overly suspicious of others motives… :-) 7:53 PM
  • luvtennis: Thank you, dear Camille. As always, you are very kind. 7:52 PM
  • luvtennis: Environment + audience. Surely, it can be successfully argued that western art music no longer occupies... 7:51 PM
  • manou: Maybe a kind friend played Baudelaire the Liszt piano transcriptions of Wagner’s operas. 7:39 PM

Encouraging young things to grow

La Cieca has just reviewed the parterre circulation numbers and she is delighted and not a little perplexed to note that the day of the Great Opera News Kerfuffle provided our site with the highest number of pageviews in history, a total of 33,565 views in the 24 hours of Tuesday May 22. Thanks to this story and the WQXR drama a few weeks earlier, parterre is on track for its busiest month ever. Read more »