The passing of Renata Scotto is perhaps the most significant and surely the saddest opera news story of 2023.
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Birthday boy Windycityoperaman‘s always spellbinding On This Day postings dominated the pageviews in July.
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Once again, La Cieca thanks you for your concern and patience during May 2023.
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La Cieca was most gratified to see that the cher public kept visiting parterre.com and commenting on every topic under the sun during her mid-April bout of illness!
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In the biggest story of March 2023, awesome Angela Meade pulled off the Einspring of the Year, saving the Met’s performance of Norma.
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Like all true opera queens, the parterrians live in the time to come. Thus this month’s #1 most read post!
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The fraught opening night of what surely must be this time around the final hurrah of the Mets old Aida production: That’s what people wanted to read about in December.
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Of course the Met premiere of The Hours grabbed most of the attention last month!
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A welcome return by Christian Ocier reviewing Wagner in far-flung Seattle led the top ten most read posts for the month of October.
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Sondra Radvanovsky‘s mean, moody, magnificent Medea fascinated the cher public as the season kicked in at the end of September.
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The cher public (not pictured) made the sizzling month August a time of listening and discussion.
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Beverly Sills and Renée Fleming (not pictured) rightly crown the list of most-read parterre box articles for August 2022.
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In a slow month for opera, parterre box readers turned their attention to a musical: Into the Woods.
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A very political month indeed focused sharply on the Met’s revival of Turandot.
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A controversial new Lucia at the Met fascinated the cher public last month.
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The conundrum “Whose side is Anna Netrebko on?” fascinated the readers of parterre box in March.
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The Met’s new season, including Medea with Sondra Radvanovsky, set parterrian tongues wagging during the month of February 2022.
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Signs of new life at the Met caught the attention of parterrians in January.
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The Met’s antiquated production of La bohéme proved as popular with our readers as it did with audiences last month!
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The Met’s premiere of Terence Blanchard‘s Fire Shut Up in My Bones dominated the top ten list of most popular articles on parterre box in September.
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The news of the death of beloved soprano Gianna Rolandi and her adoring obituary by Enzo Bordello attracted the most parterre box readers for the month of June 2021.
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In May, everyone wanted to hear those Wagnerians, shown here singing Strauss.
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Viewers flocked to parterre box last month to read the sad news of the passing of legendary mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig.
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February was a month for diva admiration on parterre box.
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