Questo e Quello
Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt in a 1967 Vienna broadcast appropriately featuring three American stars: John Alexander, Marilyn Zschau, and George London.
Happy Independence Day All U.S. Parterrians!
Jonas Kaufmann IS Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!
Here’s some news you can use—if you can peek into the future and guess which tenor is jumping into a starring role at the Met this fall.
Which superstar tenor is about to record a complete opera that surely sell lots of copies, causing his fans to rejoice?
Happy 80th birthday mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender.
The Royal Opera’s production of Bizet’s Carmen will be livestreamed for free starting at 1:30 PM today.
Born on this day in 1714 composer Christoph Willibald von Gluck.
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Teatro Nuovo put on a perfectly delightful show on Thursday night.
On this day in 1933 Richard Strauss’ Arabella premiered in Dresden.
The live telecast from the Glyndebourne Festival has just started!
Born on this day in 1685 playwright and librettist John Gay.
Born on this day in 1911 composer Bernard Herrmann.
La Cieca hears that for the first time in recorded history, the Metropolitan Opera will have an official presence in the Pride March this Sunday.
Benjamin Yarmolinsky’s The Constitution: A Secular Oratorio, performed by Vertical Player Repertory on Thursday evening, was an awful lot of legal speak for one evening.
The Royal Opera Covent Garden is getting into the act with a star-studded revival of Cats featuring Sir Bryn Terfel (pictured) as “Old Deuteronomy.”
Born on this day in 1902 composer Richard Rodgers.
Under any circumstances, the Russian Opera Workshop’s radiant concert performance of Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta would have been an event to celebrate.
“Trove Thursday” turns to an opera by a gay American composer prior to Sunday’s Stonewall 50 commemoration: Samuel Barber’s gothic melodrama Vanessa starring the great Carol Vaness.
Born on this day in 1932 soprano Anna Moffo.
“For five years, concert pianist Theo Mangrove has been living at his family’s home in East Kill, New York, recovering from a nervous breakdown that derailed his career.”
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.
