Questo e Quello
La Cieca is declaring a tie!
Sadly, the Pubie goes to Così fan tutte.
And the Pubie goes to… Parsifal!
An’ ze Pubee goes to: Ze Merry Widow!
No surprise here: the Pubie goes to Anna Netrebko in Tosca!
And the Pubie goes to Olga Peretyatko-Mariotti in Lucia di Lammermoor.
And the Pubie goes to… Piotr Beczala in Luisa Miller!
By a wide margin, the Pubie goes to Placido Domingo in Luisa Miller.
And the Pubie goes to… Stephanie Blythe in Cendrillon!
And the Pubie goes to… Yannick Nézet-Seguin!
And the Pubie goes to… James Levine!
And the Pubie goes to… Yusif Eyvazov!
And the Pubie goes to: Evelyn Herlitzius in Parsifal.
And the Pubie goes to: Fellow Travelers!
Anna Caterina Antonacci in recital.
Whether full-bodied and rich or comic and actorly, the baritone voice contains multitudes.
Born on this day in 1929 soprano and administrator Beverly Sills.
On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of your birth, I am perplexed as to what to write about you that isn’t of the highest, most ecstatic praise and of deliriously effusive encomiums.
The old adage “the third time’s the charm” proved to be the case with me and Daphne, Richard Strauss’s ravishing bukolische Tragödie, when I recently heard it performed by Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra.
On this day in 1966 Jerry Herman‘s Mame opened on Broadway.
“Hey. Sorry to trouble you. I was wondering if I could have a word with my client.”
Happy 82nd birthday soprano Ingeborg Hallstein.
Born on this day in 1813 composer Richard Wagner.
I attended the Sunday, May 13, performance with bittersweet anticipation.
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.
