Questo e Quello
Renowned mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly may have been dropped from the Met’s Ring production, but today she has announced she has invented an entirely new role for herself in the work.
The theme was “Lyrics by Shakespeare.”
I love the comments that really seem to think they balanced the positive with the negative.
Happy 66th birthday soprano Ashley Putnam.
Michaela Schuster will sing Waltraute in all performances of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, replacing Sarah Connolly.
Last weekend marked the opening night for West Edge Opera: Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande.
This past weekend was a busy one for operas in San Francisco (and Bay Area).
Armide with a superbly grand Francophone heroine in Karina Gauvin and conducted by the always excellent Ivor Bolton.
Happy 59th birthday soprano Maria Guleghina.
Born on this day in 1755 castrato and composer Luigi Marchesi.
To heck with Bayreuth and Salzburg, Glimmerglass and Santa Fe as Rosa Feola sang Mozart at Lincoln Center Friday night and I wouldn’t have been anywhere else!
Born on this day in 1911 actress and bass-baritone Lucille Ball.
Born on this day in 1890 conductor Erich Kleiber.
Happy 58th birthday soprano Deborah Voigt.
Sounds like a better Friday night than “what the composer intended.”
Happy 58th birthday baritone Simon Keenlyside.
August on “Trove Thursday” begins with Midsummer Mezzo Madness featuring a sterling quartet of lower-voiced ladies
Happy 81st birthday soprano Gundula Janowitz.
Bard cultish Summerscape series continues to test our esoteric limits with Demon, Anton Rubinstein’s little-known opera about a demon who hankers for a Georgian princess.
Broadway’s new Head Over Heels is anything but under committed; it’s a show with an irresistibly fun spirit and an infallibly good heart.
All it takes to rocket to the top of the charts on parterre box these days is a chaise longue and a periwinkle dress.
The summer of festivals continues, as parterre box salutes our sponsors Bard Summerscape Opera and Teatro Nuovo.
Happy 92nd birthday bass Theo Adam.
Simone Mayr’s Medea in Corinto, a curious work of 1813, has been revived by Will Crutchfield’s new enterprise, Teatro Nuovo.
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.
