Questo e Quello
Your top ten posts on parterre box for the month of July are actually a Top 13, thanks to a (near) three-way tie.
“Trove Thursday” presents a complete Prodanà Nevesta (aka Die Verkaufte Braut, of course) by Smetana plus extended excerpts from a broadcast of Spontini’s La Vestale in its rarely heard original French version.
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.
The live performance from Bayreuth begins at 10:00 AM.
Born on this day in 1936 designer Yves Saint-Laurent.
The theatrical producer and director, who was associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the 20th century, has died. He was 91.
The second summer session of the Russian Opera Workshop concludes this week with concert performances of Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans.
A hefty thunderclap shook Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Shed just as Andris Nelsons raised his baton for the third act of the weekend’s concert Die Walküre.
On this day in 1967 Judy Garland arrived At Home at the Palace for a four week engagement at the famed Broadway theater.
The Met Live in 2018-2020 HD series (including Joyce DiDonato‘s role debut as Carlotta Campion) is now on sale.
The aphorisms projected before each act of Das Wunder der Heliane suggested the work concerns the transformative power of love—but does it really?
Live from the Bayreuth Festival.
Born on this day in 1818 writer Emily Bronte.
Happy 62nd birthday soprano Alessandra Marc.
Live from the Bayerische Staatsoper, Handel’s opera of intrigue.
Blind Injustice is a masterpiece, brilliant theater.
On this day in 1964, Broadway diva Ethel Merman divorced academy Academy award-winning actor Ernest Borgnine.
The burn here surely is the Publikum’s applause.
Your choice this afternoon, cher public, as a very busy Saturday offers two very important broadcasts.
The Mac-Haydn Theatre are giving Ragtime, a musical about turn-of-the-century race relations, unwelcome immigrants, labor revolts against brute force and the collapse of the traditional family.
Born on this day in 1824 dramatist Alexandre Dumas, fils.
“Ms. Fleming said she has spent many hours tending to plants on her terrace, and has hosted evening dinner parties under its wisteria-clad trellis.”
Within minutes, something wonderful happened. None of my reservations mattered.
Live from the Bayreuth festival, beginning at 10:00 AM.
Born on this day in 1875 psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung.
