At the parterre box Calendar, nature is refurbishing herself. Spring varieties abound with the usual Met fare and all manner of recitals and rarities. We’ve got our eyes on these from our friends and sponsors:

On Tuesday, April 9th, soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen makes her Zankel Hall debut. On offer: songs from Beach, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff and a veritable Frühlingsstrauß of Richard Strauss.

On Thursday, April 19th, a delicious dilemma in New York:

Black Music Archive presents Grammy Award-winning, Met Opera legend and leading Verdi soprano Leona Mitchell’s return to the stage, with a concert of arias, spirituals, pop, broadway, and jazz. Honestly? Mother.

…while Catapult Opera presents the American premiere of Nadia Boulanger’s only opera, La ville morte, newly rescued, realized, and revived from reduction. Try saying that five times fast—with an uvular trill.

As always, the cher public are encouraged to patronize and partake of these events, if not each other.

And should you wish your event to pirouette across our pages, or if you covet our illustrious readers’ adulations, a beacon awaits at parterre.com/advertising. Alternatively, dispatch your most charming missive to [email protected].

Nick Scholl

Nick Scholl is the Publisher of Parterre Box and the silent partner behind the growth of its digital presence since 2009. A professional software engineer, Nick has developed Parterre's visual brand, designed the site, and codes and manages the infrastructure, including integration of adtech.

Nick is also a baritone. He sang his first Mozart Requiem at age 14 and from a young age became interested in the written works of Cornelius Reid, as well as in historical and pirated opera recordings. He went on to study with the American baritone Julian Patrick, among other offshoots of the functional pedagogue Douglas Stanley. He's been an AGMA chorister with the Seattle Opera, Lyric Opera of Baltimore, the Baltimore Concert Opera, as well as numerous performing groups nationwide.

He is an early adopter of online opera queendom, having begun the very first opera blog, Trrill.com, in 2004 at the behest of Alex Ross. Trrill is now a YouTube channel focused on rare historical opera recordings and footage from 1900 to the early post-War era.

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