By La Cieca 
This week’s fill-in for our usual and excellent podcast “Trove Thusday” is another show from the archives of “Unnatural Acts of Opera,” one intriguingly entitled “Grace Bumbry Sings Richard Strauss.”
If any of you out there among the cher public have a favorite episode of “Unnatural Acts” that you think would bear repeating, La Cieca is. as always open to your suggestions.
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.
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
