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parterre box is very sad to learn of the passing of beloved writer Patrick Mack in Los Angeles yesterday.
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The German Heldentenor died yesterday at his home in Austria.
The American bass, a fixture of the Metropolitan Opera between 1967 and 2018, was 83.
The celebrated Austrian director, known for his picturesque and conservative stagings, was 94.
The dependable American soprano, a fixture of the midcentury Metropolitan Opera, died on September 6
Zack Woolfe of The New York Times remembers James Jorden
The writers of the Box and James’s friends are saddened to announce the death of the inimitable founder of Parterre Box
The Italian soprano, pedagogue and mentor has died. She was 89.
The celebrated Italian soprano died yesterday. She was 92.
The beloved lyric soprano has died, according to press reports.
It is with a heavy heart that La Cieca predicts the demise of New York City Opera.
It is reported that the tenor died suddenly today of a heart attack in his home in Augusta, Sicily.
The Grammy winning opera and concert singer is dead. She was 74.
On this, the occasion of her 37th birthday [see below], La Cieca is happy to repeat the story of how she came to be born (as first told in the pages of parterre box, issue #28.
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