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Readers, writers, and stars reflect on the 30th anniversary of “the most essential blog in opera” (NYT)
Zack Woolfe of The New York Times remembers James Jorden
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The writers of the Box and James’s friends are saddened to announce the death of the inimitable founder of Parterre Box
One of my absolute favorite later Cole Porter lyrics.
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So, give me three good reasons we should not hear Jamie Barton as the mother of Salomé?
“As for next year, Gheorghiu makes an as-yet-unannounced return for the first time in seven years to the Met in New York.”
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parterre box is launching a new themed regular feature curated by our readers and opera fans across the world! We are asking for your favorite clips, recordings, and anecdotes to get people chatting, listening, and thinking.
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“The design of the Met’s new production [of Lucia di Lammermoor] by Simon Stone suggests a present-day American Rust Belt, an area once prosperous but now fallen into decline and neglect.”
La Cieca hears that Anna Netrebko has cancelled her November performances of Nabucco in Vienna to schedule shoulder surgery.
La Cieca hears that major news is coming from the Met regarding 2021.
Broadcasts
- Friday, October 27 at 7:55PM: Un Ballo in Maschera
- Wednesday, November 01 at 7:25PM: La Bohème
- Friday, November 03 at 6:55PM: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
- Wednesday, November 08 at 7:25PM: Un Ballo in Maschera
- Friday, November 10 at 7:25PM: La Bohème
- Tuesday, November 14 at 7:25PM: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
- Thursday, November 16 at 7:55PM: Florencia en el Amazonas
- Tuesday, November 21 at 7:25PM: La Bohème
- Friday, November 24 at 7:55PM: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
- Monday, November 27 at 7:55PM: Florencia en el Amazonas
- Thursday, November 30 at 6:55PM: Tannhäuser
- Friday, December 08 at 6:55PM: The Magic Flute—Holiday Presentation
- Saturday, December 09 at 12:55PM: Florencia en el Amazonas
- Tuesday, December 12 at 6:55PM: Tannhäuser
- Saturday, December 16 at 11:55AM: The Magic Flute—Holiday Presentation
- Thursday, December 21 at 7:25PM: The Magic Flute—Holiday Presentation
- Saturday, December 23 at 12:55PM: Tannhäuser
- Friday, December 29 at 6:55PM: Nabucco
- Wednesday, January 03 at 7:25PM: Carmen
- Saturday, January 06 at 12:55PM: Nabucco
- Thursday, January 11 at 6:55PM: Madama Butterfly
- Saturday, January 13 at 12:25PM: La Bohème
- Tuesday, January 16 at 7:25PM: Carmen
- Wednesday, January 24 at 7:55PM: Madama Butterfly
- Saturday, January 27 at 12:55PM: Carmen
- Saturday, March 2 at 1:30 PM: Ernani
- Thursday, March 7 at 7 PM: Roméo et Juliette
- Saturday, March 9 at 12 PM: La forza del destino
- Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 PM: Madama Butterfly
- Saturday, March 16 at 12 PM: Turandot
- Sunday, March 17 at 3:00 PM: Laffont Competition Finals
- Saturday, March 23 at 1:30 PM: Roméo et Juliette
- Tuesday, March 26 at 7:00PM: La rondine
- Saturday, March 30 at 1:30 PM: Verdi: Requiem
- Tuesday, April 2 at 7:30 PM: La rondine
- Saturday, April 6 at 1:30 PM: L’Elisir d’amore
- Monday, April 8 at 7:00 PM: Fire Shut Up in my Bones
- Saturday, April 13 at 1:30 PM: Die Fledermaus
- Friday, April 19 at 7:30 PM: Turandot
- Saturday, April 20 at 1:30 PM: La rondine
- Tuesday, April 23 at 8:00 PM: El Niño
- Saturday, April 27 at 1:30 PM: Fire Shut Up in my Bones
- Tuesday, April 30 at 7:30 PM: Madama Butterfly
- Saturday, May 4 at 1:30 PM: El Niño
- Friday, May 10 at 7:30 PM: The Hours
- Saturday, May 11 at 1:30 PM: Madama Butterfly
- Thursday, May 16 at 7:30 PM: Orfeo ed Euridice
- Saturday, May 18 at 1:30 PM: The Hours
- Wednesday, May 22 at 7:00 PM: Carmen
- Saturday, May 25 at 1:30 PM: La fanciulla del west
- Tuesday, May 28 at 7:00 PM: The Hours
- Saturday, June 1 at 1:30 PM: Cinderella
- Tuesday, June 4 at 7:30 PM: Turandot
- Saturday, June 8 at 1:30 PM: Orfeo ed Euridice
La Cieca and the gang down at parterre box offer best wishes for a speedy recovery to Anna Netrebko.
La Cieca hears that the centerpiece of the 2021 Salzburg Easter Festival will be a new production of Turandot conducted by Christian Thielemann (not pictured) .
The entire Metropolitan Opera schedule for 2020-2021, in what looks like a fairly plausible form, has been leaked.
Bass-baritone Craig Colclough makes his Met debut tonight in the title role of Macbeth.
This overabundance of detail serves only to set La Cieca wondering who protested Ms. Davis.
Win tickets to Piotr Beczala at Carnegie Hall!
pb—with our friends at Carnegie Hall—is giving away two tickets to PB’s December concert. Enter now!
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