My first-ever Met opera on a (dreary, rain-soaked) Sunday brought the very welcome return of Gluck’s sublime Orfeo ed Euridice that embraced elegant conducting, joyous dancing and an extraordinarily accomplished hero in Jamie Barton. (As for Mrs. Orpheus, though, leave her to heaven.)
Much more tomorrow on parterre box.
Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera
Christopher Corwin began writing for parterre box in 2011 under the pen name “DeCaffarrelli.” His work has also appeared in , The New York Times, Musical America, The Observer, San Francisco Classical Voice and BAMNotes. Like many, he came to opera via the Saturday Met Opera broadcasts which he began listening to at age 11. His particular enthusiasm is 17th and 18th century opera. Since 2015 he has curated the weekly podcast Trove Thursday on parterre box presenting live recordings.
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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.
