Like all true opera queens, the parterrians live in the time to come. Thus this month’s #1 most read post!

The fraught opening night of what surely must be this time around the final hurrah of the Mets old Aida production: That’s what people wanted to read about in December.

Of course the Met premiere of The Hours grabbed most of the attention last month!

A welcome return by Christian Ocier reviewing Wagner in far-flung Seattle led the top ten most read posts for the month of October.

Sondra Radvanovsky‘s mean, moody, magnificent Medea fascinated the cher public as the season kicked in at the end of September.

The cher public (not pictured) made the sizzling month August a time of listening and discussion.

Beverly Sills and Renée Fleming (not pictured) rightly crown the list of most-read parterre box articles for August 2022.

In a slow month for opera, parterre box readers turned their attention to a musical: Into the Woods.

A very political month indeed focused sharply on the Met’s revival of Turandot.

A controversial new Lucia at the Met fascinated the cher public last month.

The conundrum “Whose side is Anna Netrebko on?” fascinated the readers of parterre box in March.

Signs of new life at the Met caught the attention of parterrians in January.