La Cieca
James Jorden (who writes under the names "La Cieca" and "Our Own JJ") is the founder and editor of parterre box. During his 20 year career as an opera critic he has written for the New York Times, Opera, Gay City News, Opera Now, Musical America and the New York Post. He has also raised his voice in punditry on National Public Radio. From time to time he has directed opera, including three unsuccessful productions of Don Giovanni, a work he hopes to return to someday. Currently he alternates his doyenne duties with writing a weekly column on opera for the New York Observer.
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Stephen Costello and Eleonora Buratto lead the bohemian pack this time around.
“Soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska will sing the title role in Puccini’s Tosca on April 8 and 12, replacing Angela Gheorghiu, who is ill.”
The charismatic soprano has just canceled tomorrow afternoon’s performance of Tosca at the Met.
“The current Met revival, while not perfect, has much to feel joyful and excited about.”
Today’s Met matinee broadcast is the final performance this season of the acclaimed revival of Verdi’s comedy.
In the biggest story of March 2023, awesome Angela Meade pulled off the Einspring of the Year, saving the Met’s performance of Norma.
This much-anticipated revival stars Lise Davidsen and Günther Groissböck.
The complete new recording played by Radio Beethoven in Santiago, Chile.
Helena Dix goes on for the broadcast this afternoon!
“For this evening’s performance of Norma (March 22, 2023), Norma will now be sung by Helena Dix, replacing Sonya Yoncheva.”
“I greatly enjoyed the musical interpretation as a whole, even if I felt that many of the singers seemed a little lost, mismatched, or out-of-place in François Girard’s production.”
“In its current Met revival, happily, Falstaff has everything it needs.”
Protean Anna Netrebko has booked her first performances of Ponchielli’s La Gioconda .
Angel Blue’s “experience in the role shows as the voice sails over the arching lines of Verdi’s cantilena like liquid velvet.”
Celebrate International Women’s Day 2023 with a broadcast of Bellini’s masterpiece.
Vladimir Jurowski conducts a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov of Prokofiev’s epic. Streamed live from the Bayerische Staatsoper.
Today’s “Listeners’ Choice” is a broadcast of Donizetti’s opera from March 11, 1978.
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