Micaela Baranello
Micaela Baranello is a musicologist and erstwhile opera blogger. Her music criticism has appeared in The New York Times and Financial Times; her book The Operetta Empire was published by the University of California Press. She is assistant professor of musicology at Temple University in Philadelphia and reviews editor of The Opera Quarterly. She is working on a book about Regietheater.
Valentin Schwarz‘s and Simone Young‘s Ring, in its final outing at Bayreuth, is dramaturgically messy and musically excellent.
Matthias Davids‘s reactionary new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg might be fun, but no one comes to Bayreuth for fun.
I was on the bus to Nürnberg today on the way to do Wagner tourism and hear Herr Sacro Fuoco tomorrow, and on the way I translated the juicy bits of the full print edition Anna Netrebko article… I was going to post it as a comment but it turns out I thought a lot…
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
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.
