Parterre Box

Broadcast

Don Giovanni / Metropolitan Opera

Opening week at the Met continues with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting a cast that includes Ryan Speedo Green, Federica Lombardi, and Ben Bliss

Streamed September 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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Recording Review

Now, voyager

The miracle workers at Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera have published another premiere recording of a work that I’ve long heard of but never heard: Dominick Argento’s The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe.

By Dawn Fatale Comment

Broadcast

Turandot / Metropolitan Opera

Michael Fabiano answers Angela Meade's riddles in a live broadcast from New York

Streamed September 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM

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Performance Review

Museum quality

Opera Philadelphia’s Il viaggio a Reims in a nutshell: Hyperactive, confusing, and distracting from (and sometimes for) the singers? Yes. Imaginative, wildly entertaining, and musically rewarding? Absolutely.

By David Fox Comment

The Talk of the Town

Next season I’m excited for The Death of Klinghoffer

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino presents John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer next May.

By Kevin Ng Comment

Broadcast

Orpheus and Eurydice / Dallas Opera

Emmanuel Villaume leads Hugh Cutting and Madison Leonard in a performance recorded this spring in Dallas

Streamed September 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM

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Performance Review

The rain in Spain

Wolf Trap Opera concluded its 2025 summer season last month with a production of Carmen that was vocally strong, though not entirely dramatically satisfying, amid challenging weather.

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Grand Tier Grab Bag

Artists in residence

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.

Grand Tier Grab Bag

The Guy for the job

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

Grand Tier Grab Bag

Contained vehemence

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

Grand Tier Grab Bag

The girls are back in town

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.

Grand Tier Grab Bag

In Gleiß und Zeir

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

Grand Tier Grab Bag

Setting it ablaze

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

Performance Review

One-woman Brutus and Cassius

Anna Pirozzi and Luca Salsi reunite in blazing form in Tosca at the Teatro San Carlo

By Harry Rose Comment

The Talk of the Town

Next season I’m excited for Palm Beach Opera

Palm Beach Opera has listed its 3 operas for next year — La bohème, The Pearl Fishers, and Rigoletto — but has not listed any casting yet!

By Mister Snow Comment

Broadcast

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay / Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera's 2025-26 season opens with a live broadcast of Mason Bates's and Gene Scheer's new opera

Streamed September 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM

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Broadcast

Roméo et Juliette / Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Juan Diego Flórez and Nino Machaidze lead a performance recorded in Berlin in June

Streamed September 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM

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La Clemenza di Tito / Edinburgh International Festival

Maxim Emelyanychev conducts a performance starring Giovanni Sala, Tara Erraught, and Angela Brower recorded this summer at the Edinburgh International Festival

Streamed September 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM

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our own

Before the fall

If you haven’t yet sounded off for this fall’s The Talk of the Town, what on earth are you waiting for?

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The Talk of the Town

Next season I’m excited for Corinne Winters in Il trittico

Corinne Winters will take on a trio of roles in Puccini’s Trittico in Houston.

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Broadcast

The Turn of the Screw / Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

A live broadcast from the Rome Opera

Streamed September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town

La bohème is better in translation

There are Bohèmes and Bohèmes, and it is almost a joke word these days, but the French show us how it is properly done.

The Talk of the Town

A favorite mezzo performance from Damian

This performance by Marilyn Horne has always stunned me and everyone I play it for.

The Talk of the Town

A favorite mezzo performance from Remko Jas

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.

The Talk of the Town

Another favorite mezzo performance from Mr. Portafiori

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

The Talk of the Town

A favorite mezzo performance from Ryan Ellermann

One of the greatest to ever do it.

The Talk of the Town

A favorite mezzo performance from Elvira, back from the dead

Oralia Dominguez: deranged, demented, an absolute triumph.

Broadcast

All-Wagner Program

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Vienna Philharmonic in an all-Wagner program including Act I of Die Walküre with Elza van den Heever and Stanislas de Barbeyrac

Streamed September 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM

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The Talk of the Town

Next season I’m excited for Lisette Oropesa in Roméo et Juliette

I am looking forward to seeing The Greatest Thing Ever as Gounod‘s Juliette, a role I have never seen her in, at the Berlin Staatsoper on 6 November.

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The Talk of the Town

Next season I’m excited for Pacific Opera Project

I am pretty excited to add coverage of nearby performances while I am getting settled here in Southern California.

By Michael Anthonio Comment

Grand Tier Grab Bag

Sings like a god

Anticipating a busy season for both, Parterre Box features married couple Angela Meade and John Matthew Myers trading soaring Strauss lines in a duet from Die Liebe der Danae.

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