Parterre Box

Broadcast

Il barbiere di Siviglia

A live broadcast from New York

By Parterre Box 157 comments

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A favorite Donizetti performance from Parpignol

Does anyone remember Beverly Sills as the three Donizetti queens at NYCO? This made a huge impression on me.

By Parpignol 161 comments

thoughtful thinking

The unkindest Kind

Madison Schindele on loving Die Frau ohne Schatten as a “woman of childbearing age”

By Madison Schindele 5 comments

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A favorite Donizetti performance from H_Badger

The Met’s 2022 Lucia was divisive, to say the least, but it was the first time Lucia truly resonated with me.

By H_Badger 72 comments

Broadcast

Salome

A live broadcast from Florence starring Lidia Fridman in the title role

By Parterre Box 4 comments

Broadcast

Norma

Rachel Willis-Sorensen sings the title role for the first time in a live performance from Berlin.

By parterre box staff 58 comments

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A favorite Donizetti performance from Krunoslav

In terms of elegance and beauty of execution, Renato Bruson is in a class by himself among Donizetti baritones.

By Krunoslav 64 comments

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.

Broadcast

Die Zauberflöte

A live broadcast from New York

By Parterre Box 94 comments

Broadcast

Macbeth

Domen Krizaj and Tamara Wilson lead a performance of Verdi’s opera recorded in Frankfurt in December

By Parterre Box 2 comments

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A favorite Donizetti performance from Flamand

Walking out of this Lucia performance from October 2010, my companion said to me, “No mystery who Seattle Opera’s Artist of the Year is going to be.” Aleksandra Kurzak did end up getting that award, to no one’s surprise!

By Flamand 15 comments

Grand Tier Grab Bag

Fathered in

Ahead of his only New York appearances this season later this month, parterre box looks forward to the return of estimable baritone Amartuvshin Enkhbat by sharing a clip featuring starry company.

By Parterre Box 42 comments

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A favorite Donizetti performance from Camille

My favorite scene in my favourite Donizetti opera. Even if she does go ahead and sing that damnable cabaletta, it’s Mariella Devia and she can do little RONG.

By Camille 202 comments

Performance Review

Like the poem said by a lady in red

Boop! The Musical arrives on Broadway with plenty of colorful glitz, glamour, and talent with an empowering message for women to find their inner confidence to succeed and lead

By Scott C. Morgan 4 comments

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A favorite Donizetti performance from Leyla Gender-Bender

I’m convinced that someone else will claim this Donizetti opera before I do, but Maria Stuarda is definitely my very favorite Donizetti opera.

By Leyla Gender-Bender 133 comments

Podcast / Chris's Cache

Never enough hours in the days of a queen

As a preview to a spring of Giulio Cesare, Chris’s Cache offers a rare pirate recording featuring Cecilia Bartoli, Andreas Scholl, and Les Arts Florissants.

By Christopher Corwin 30 comments

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Les Contes d’Hoffmann is better in translation

Yes, you miss the champagne sparkle and lilt of the best French versions but look at what you gain by hearing these grizzly tales in ETA Hoffmann’s own language.

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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.

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A favorite mezzo performance from Damian

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

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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.

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Another favorite mezzo performance from Mr. Portafiori

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

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A favorite mezzo performance from Ryan Ellermann

One of the greatest to ever do it.

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A favorite Donizetti performance from Ivy Lin

Kind of self-explanatory, but Maria Callas‘s mad scene in Anna Bolena has truly ruined this music for me.

By Ivy Lin 130 comments

Broadcast

Le nozze di Figaro

A live broadcast from New York

By Parterre Box 21 comments

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A favorite Donizetti performance from Harry Rose

A friend who frequents these pages recently turned me on to a Donizetti cantata that I had never heard of: his setting of the speech of Dante‘s Conte Ugolino.

By Harry Rose 66 comments