Parterre Box

Tamara Wilson completes her first Ring Cycle as Brünnhilde next month, and Parterre Box celebrates with a clip of her in Siegfried.

Parterre Box draws your attention to another Macbeth taking the stage this month, the triple-threat baritone Luca Micheletti.

Parterre Box offers an (almost) comprehensive introduction to the sopranos headlining Mozart productions in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco this fall.

In between performances of Strauss and Mozart, Parterre Box highlights the smolderingly elegant Samantha Hankey.

Parterre Box invites you to cool off with a dip in the lake alongside Sonya Yoncheva and Pavel Černoch in Rusalka.

For those with Odyssey fever, this week’s Grand Tier Grab Bag item features a performance of another ancient epic: Les Troyens with Russell Thomas.

Last September I was most excited by Handel oratorios being performed during the 2025-26 season. This time I’m really looking forward to three of the composer’s operas arriving within a few weeks of each other in Spring 2027.

Isn’t it fun to see the Virgin Queen spew out some coloratura?

Eichenholz is much too rare on stage these days.

The mezzo international anthem is so oversung that we forget how hard it is to sing.

Finally, finally, a change to see Massenet‘s Hérodiade, albeit in concert from, though I long for a day when the Met or the Lyric Opera of Chicago would give us a staged performance.

I guess it’s no secret here that I LOVE contemporary operas.