La Cieca is gratified and even mildly humbled to announce that parterre.com garnered over half a million pageviews in the month of October, representing over 30,000 unique visitors. Perhaps even more impressive is a metric called “Average Session Duration,” which is the average time a reader remains on the parterre.com during a single “visit”—nearly 10 minutes! The most popular stories on parterre.com in the past month are listed after the jump.  

  1. “What gets me…!”
  2. Starry starry night
  3. Aged in blood
  4. The Friday afternoon news dump in excelsis
  5. Veiled threat
  6. Lost soul
  7. Tosca è a palazzo!
  8. Elektral college
  9. Out here in the dark
  10. Where’s the fire?
  11. Nunsense
  12. Lounge act
  13. Alpha and omega
  14. All my Edgardos
  15. Est nunquam molestum lupo quot oves exsistant
  16. Tisi spell
  17. The blind leading the blind
  18. Joseph Gordon-Who?
  19. Upbeat news
  20. For the ladies

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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