As expected, the return of Sondra Radvanovsky to the Met in Aida dominated parterre box in March. The top ten stories follow the jump. Read more »
La Cieca (pictured) is delighted to announce that the most popular posts for the month of February dealt primarily with the Met season yet to come. Read more »
The news for the first month of 2019 was naturally dominated by Anna Netrebko‘s Adriana Lecouvreur (as what month in history has not been?) but everything from unruly horses to missing queens put in appearances. The top ten parterre box stories for January 2019 after the jump. Read more »
New York City Opera presents the world premiere of Iain Bell and Mark Campbell’s Stonewall. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the uprising, Stonewall is a moving and explosive new American opera that captures the rage, grit, humor and, finally, hope of the LGBTQ+ community’s uprising in a Greenwich Village dance club on one hot night in June 1969. Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, June 21-28. Read more »
The arrest of an important gay opera star and his husband on a serious criminal charge is undoubtedly news and almost certain to be interest to regular readers of parterre box. But we’re not going to follow this story for reasons I will offer after the jump. Read more »
Widely-publicized parterre box garnered 3,623,050 pageviews for the more than 1,200 articles published during 2018.
Jonas Kaufmann‘s Herbstreise to Little Old New York dominated the busy pages of October’s parterre box, boosting our total number of pageviews to nearly 400,000.
The Met’s new production of Samson et Dalila (not pictured) grabbed the most attention last month.
Mr. Plummer is very wise and La Cieca intends (in a general sense) to continue to follow his example.
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