Parterre Box

Marina Rebeka and Jonas Kaufmann are heading to New York for Tosca, so Parterre Box offers a sample of the two of them in a different Puccini opera.

Köln’s current Rigoletto, the debonair Korean baritone Insik Choi, is this week’s Grand Tier Grab Bag featured artist.

The operatically elusive Marianne Crebassa is in Parterre Box‘s spotlight this week ahead of La clemenza di Tito in Barcelona.

Anita Rachvelishvili and Saioa Hernandez are headed back to New York and this week’s Grand Tier Grab Bag features them together in a performance from July.

Iwona Sobotka, a favorite of Riccardo Muti, is this week’s featured Grand Tier Grab Bag artist

Tamara Wilson completes her first Ring Cycle as Brünnhilde next month, and Parterre Box celebrates with a clip of her in Siegfried.

Some singers only need a few seconds to show what they are all about. Listen to Ursula Hesse von den Steinen in this stunning performance to see what I mean.

One of my favorite mezzo performances is Tatiana Troyanos in Cavalleria rusticana.

One of the greatest to ever do it.

Oralia Dominguez: deranged, demented, an absolute triumph.

Remember, kids: if you sing with a “splatty” chest you’ll lose access to your top, which is why Agnes Baltsa had such a short international career.

One of the few truly great mezzos I’ve heard in the 21st century here at the Metropolitan.