Parterre Box

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.

Parterre Box draws your attention to another Macbeth taking the stage this month, the triple-threat baritone Luca Micheletti.

I have chosen “Våren” (The Spring) which is one of my favorite Grieg songs and which is sung perfectly by Anne Sofie von Otter.

From the moment she started to sing until the end, all of us sat in complete silence letting this voice engulf us.

Florence Quivar’s blend of triple cream voice and superior musical expression earned her a discography and videography to rival those of any of her contemporaries.

Sometimes, the first time you hear an oeuvre, it becomes the definitive performance for you.

An elegant rendition, and an artistically true one.

The open, skyward deliveries at the beginning and end of the aria as she addresses heaven! The mournful softness of her interceding “O mia Regina.”