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A voice and something more A voice and something more

parterre‘s very own Max Keller opens up in The New York Times (!) about how starting T has affected their voice

on August 27, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Broadcast: Last Night at the Proms Broadcast: Last Night at the Proms

Jamie Barton graces the Last Night at the Proms starting at 2:00 PM EDT.

on September 14, 2019 at 12:26 PM
Where’er you woke Where’er you woke

Our Own Jamie Barton graces the Last Night of the Proms with her “queer fat femme energy.”

on September 12, 2019 at 1:26 PM
“I’m here, I’m queer, morir” “I’m here, I’m queer, morir”

“Turandot is visibly stirred by Liù’s self-sacrifice and she caresses her dead body. Just after Calaf kisses her, she takes her headdress off and comes out as a gay woman.”

on July 23, 2019 at 4:12 PM
Ringing in my queers Ringing in my queers

Stonewall threads some difficult needles with great success overall in this last installment of New York City Opera’s Pride Month Programming.

on June 22, 2019 at 7:06 PM
Pardon my dust Pardon my dust

David Lang’s Prisoner of the State, which was premiered on Thursday night by the New York Philharmonic, places the issue of mass incarceration front and center, foregrounding the violence of the prison system, both physical and psychological.

on June 08, 2019 at 9:00 AM
First Lady sings the blues First Lady sings the blues

Daniel Thomas DavisThe Impossible She, was a towering musical achievement, a hugely complex work packing a whopping political and intellectual punch.

on May 20, 2019 at 10:00 AM
Into the wooed Into the wooed

We are the elusive, the mysterious, the ever-courted Millennial Audience, Mr. Darcy to the marketing department’s Mrs. Bennet.

on April 30, 2019 at 9:51 AM
Strangers in the night Strangers in the night

One needs liberty in order to be a libertine.

on April 05, 2019 at 1:45 PM
Exactly the kind of boy he had always wanted to be Exactly the kind of boy he had always wanted to be

UrbanArias’ recording of Paul’s Case is an antidote to the intellectual pretensions that regularly drag contemporary opera performance toward tediousness and boredom.

on February 09, 2019 at 11:03 AM
Out of sight, out of mind Out of sight, out of mind

Now, you would think nothing could please gaycentric La Cieca more than yesterday’s New York Times profile of the Met’s new music director…

on January 16, 2019 at 9:49 AM
Another one bites the Russ Another one bites the Russ

The most exquisitely queer “parterre box” headline of all time has been written.

on December 12, 2018 at 12:39 PM
American beauty American beauty

It’s surprising to read that, as of this writing, La fanciulla del west has only had 105 performances at the Metropolitan Opera.

on October 05, 2018 at 1:14 PM
All about the ‘Girl’ who came to stay All about the ‘Girl’ who came to stay

On Thursday, Puccini’s seventh opera, the California Gold Rush romance La fanciulla del West, returns to its birthplace for its first Met performances since 2011.

on October 01, 2018 at 9:00 AM