Grand Tier Grab Bag this week honors the late Limmie Pulliam with a bit of his Verdi Requiem.
Jonas Kaufmann has a new lieder album called Doppelgänger, but the contents of the album vary depending on how you purchase it.
parterre box is very sad to learn of the passing of beloved writer Patrick Mack in Los Angeles yesterday.
Readers, writers, and stars reflect on the 30th anniversary of “the most essential blog in opera” (NYT)
If opera as a genre in justified in its claim to one particular story, history confirms that the Orpheus myth would be that story.
No amount of scholarly diligence has kept Les contes d’Hoffmann from being the messiest of all standard-repertory messes.
Sometimes when you find the club that will have you as a member, you do not easily give up your spot.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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