Grand Tier Grab Bag

Stimulating morsels from here, there, and everywhere around the opera world.

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Recent rapturous musings about Huw Montague Rendall and curiosity about Aigul Akhmetshina‘s return to the Met as Rosina in May have prompted the box to share a recent sample of the pair in “Dunque io son.”

on March 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
‘Do’ or die ‘Do’ or die

Hoping to speed up the arrival of spring, parterre box coaxes you to Michael Spyres‘s blazing pira with an in-house sampling of his Manrico from last fall’s Il trovatore in Houston.

on March 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Roundheads heard ’round the world Roundheads heard ’round the world

parterre box is titillated (in the most prudishly puritanical way possible) to share a clip from the Paris Opera’s recent production of I Puritani starring Lisette Oropesa and Lawrence Brownlee

on March 07, 2025 at 9:00 AM