Readers, writers, and stars reflect on the 30th anniversary of “the most essential blog in opera” (NYT)
32 comments
Sponsored
Reach your audience through parterre box!
parterre box, “the most essential blog in opera” (New York Times), is now booking display and sponsored content advertising for the 2023-2024 season. Join Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Warner Classics and many others in reaching your target audience through parterre box.
An undeniable divide stands between the great idiomatic tradition of operatic performance and the current training models meant to prepare that tradition’s executants.
La Cieca (pictured) wishes her cher public a sensible and safe “Cyber Monday” shopping experience!
Webcasts helped keep both opera and parterre box alive in October 2020.
I am embarrassingly bad at vocal ID quizzes—I may never get over the one where I was convinced every single excerpt was Leontyne Price—but I do love to put them together.
Enjoy spectacular savings on everything from tablet computers to RIce Krispies during Amazon Prime Days!
A new series where we pit Zerbinetta against Zerlina, Caballé against Callas, Berg against Bellini in the ultimate operatic showdown.
Kicking off Der Ring des Nibelungen from the Vienna State Opera.
While most opera houses remain closed, La Cieca suggests the cher public assemble at our virtual opera house to enjoy a series of performances shared here on parterre box.
A Saturday afternoon iteration of this season’s ubiquitous revival.
Wagner’s early masterpiece returns to the Met conducted by Valery Gergiev (not pictured).
Believe it or not, it’s the final Nozze of the Met’s 2019-2020 season.
A performance from Fall 2019 featuring Lisette Oropesa and Michael Fabiano.
Amanda Woodbury jumps in as the Countess in tonight’s broadcast.
The Bayerische Staatsoper offers an all-Bartok program called Judith this afternoon.
Join the parterriani for what promises to be a legendary performance of Berlioz’s “légende dramatique.”
Cher public, let’s ring in the New Year in the most “Metropolitan Opera” way possible: lots of Puccini and extremely long intermissions!
Sponsored
Call for submissions: parterre box‘s new Talk of the Town
parterre box is launching a new themed regular feature curated by our readers and opera fans across the world! We are asking for your favorite clips, recordings, and anecdotes to get people chatting, listening, and thinking.
Exclusive opera reviews, commentary, top reads from us and our friends.
Delivered to your email weekly…ish.