End of an era
The passing of Renata Scotto is perhaps the most significant and surely the saddest opera news story of 2023.
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Double intensity
Birthday boy Windycityoperaman‘s always spellbinding On This Day postings dominated the pageviews in July.
Getting better and better
Once again, La Cieca thanks you for your concern and patience during May 2023.
On the mend
La Cieca was most gratified to see that the cher public kept visiting parterre.com and commenting on every topic under the sun during her mid-April bout of illness!
Just once in a lifetime a diva knows a moment
In the biggest story of March 2023, awesome Angela Meade pulled off the Einspring of the Year, saving the Met’s performance of Norma.
This used to be the future
Like all true opera queens, the parterrians live in the time to come. Thus this month’s #1 most read post!
Post of great Price
The ineffable Miss Leontyne Price, anthologized as a subject for Chris’s Cache, swept the board in January 2023.
Step aside, Texas
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.
Yours, mine and ‘Hours’
Of course the Met premiere of The Hours grabbed most of the attention last month!
Westward turns the gaze
A welcome return by Christian Ocier reviewing Wagner in far-flung Seattle led the top ten most read posts for the month of October.
Infanticide is painless
Sondra Radvanovsky‘s mean, moody, magnificent Medea fascinated the cher public as the season kicked in at the end of September.
Something to talk about
The cher public (not pictured) made the sizzling month August a time of listening and discussion.
Creative differences
Beverly Sills and Renée Fleming (not pictured) rightly crown the list of most-read parterre box articles for August 2022.
The ‘Woods’, the bad and the ugly
In a slow month for opera, parterre box readers turned their attention to a musical: Into the Woods.
Wave the flag
A very political month indeed focused sharply on the Met’s revival of Turandot.
Fresh blood
A controversial new Lucia at the Met fascinated the cher public last month.
Contact in Red Square
The conundrum “Whose side is Anna Netrebko on?” fascinated the readers of parterre box in March.
Our retrospection will be all to the future
The Met’s new season, including Medea with Sondra Radvanovsky, set parterrian tongues wagging during the month of February 2022.
Until you play the palace
Signs of new life at the Met caught the attention of parterrians in January.
Coasting on Bohemia
The Met’s antiquated production of La bohéme proved as popular with our readers as it did with audiences last month!
Great balls of ‘Fire’
The Met’s premiere of Terence Blanchard‘s Fire Shut Up in My Bones dominated the top ten list of most popular articles on parterre box in September.
When I have sung my songs
The news of the death of beloved soprano Gianna Rolandi and her adoring obituary by Enzo Bordello attracted the most parterre box readers for the month of June 2021.
All about that Wagner
In May, everyone wanted to hear those Wagnerians, shown here singing Strauss.
Losing a legend
Viewers flocked to parterre box last month to read the sad news of the passing of legendary mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig.
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).