Sad
The American tenor, who made a triumphant mid-career comeback in 2022, has died.
The English soprano, famed for her interpretations of twentieth-century composers like Strauss, Britten, and Poulenc, as well as Mozart and operetta, died yesterday only a few days after announcing that she had a terminal cancer.
Ten years since the death of countertenor Brian Asawa, Charles Stanton remembers his friend and corrects the record on his untimely passing.
Vincent Lombardo pays poetic tribute to the 60-year-long career of Robert Wilson.
The groundbreaking director and designer of works like Einstein on the Beach died earlier today at his home in Water Mill, New York
The Peruvian tenor Luigi Alva has died at 98.
parterre box is very sad to learn of the passing of beloved writer Patrick Mack in Los Angeles yesterday.
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
The celebrated and unique Polish contralto was 71.
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.
We have just read the sad news.
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.
Critic Martin Bernheimer has died. He was 83.
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.
OperaChic caught the story first, and now it’s even made the AP: Juan Diego Flórez has canceled Chicago (and anything else on the agenda for the next six weeks or so) due to a throat infection from a swallowed fishbone.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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