As part of the “new look” of parterre.com, La Cieca is going to try inserting a player for each new episode of Unnatural Acts of Opera. And this Act is perhaps a little more Unnatural than most, since it’s the beginning of a multipart tribute to parterre box icon Diana Soviero.

Faust (Gounod) Acts 1 and 2

Faust: Neil Shicoff
Mephistopheles: Samuel Ramey
Valentin: Richard Stilwell
Siebel: Gwendolyn Jones
Marguerite: Diana Soviero

Tulsa Opera, March 1986. Edoardo Mueller.

And, as La Cieca’s very special guest, the legendary Enzo Bordello reporting from Chicago.