deep_thoughtRobert Tuggle, Director of Archives for the Metropolitan Opera, has announced a migration of the company’s supremely useful online database to a new software system. He’s looking for ideas for “new features that might improve on a system that we are already pleased with.”

La Cieca now asks you, cher public, for your thoughts on how this opera queen’s favorite tool might be made even more handy. She’ll start the ball rolling by suggesting that each page of results should be accessible by a unique URL so that a specific performance or list of performances can be linked or embedded from external sites (such as our own little parterre.com).

Offer your ideas in the comments section, cher public, and La Cieca will forward them to the terrific Mr. Tuggle.

La Cieca

James Jorden (who wrote under the names "La Cieca" and "Our Own JJ") was the founder and editor of parterre box. During his 20 year career as an opera critic he wrote for the New York Times, Opera, Gay City News, Opera Now, Musical America and the New York Post. He also raised his voice in punditry on National Public Radio. From time to time he directed opera, including three unsuccessful productions of Don Giovanni. He also contributed a regular column on opera for the New York Observer. James died in October 2023.

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