Parterre Box features soprano Miina-Liisa Värelä, making her title role debut in Die Walküre in Munich next week, in a performance of Tristan und Isolde from 2021.

Grand Tier Grab Bag this week honors the late Limmie Pulliam with a bit of his Verdi Requiem.

Parterre Box previews Kathryn Lewek‘s upcoming Salome with clips of her as another unhinged lady of antiquity.

Fast-rising Verdi baritone Ariunbaatar Ganbataar is the subject of this week’s Grand Tier Grab Bag.

Handel’s Deidamia — and one of its current champions, soprano Sophie Junker — are the subject of this week’s Grand Tier Grab Bag.

Grand Tier Grab Bag hearkens back to the days when Sondra Radvanovsky — who is singing no Verdi at all next season — seemed like the Verdi soprano of reference.

The one who got away was Anna Caterina Antonacci, a thrilling performer.

In the case of Lina Bruna Rasa, the reasons why she never sang at the Met are painfully clear.

For vibrato fanciers, of course, discovering Supervia is like hitting the mother lode.

Yes, the Met had Birgit Nilsson – so they let the volcano that was Gertrude Grob-Prandl‘s voice slip through their fingers.

So much color in this beautifully agile voice.

I like to use this recording to annoy Mariah Carey fans by proving that whistle register doesn’t count.