How firm a foundation How firm a foundation

Take a moment, cher public, to thank our splendid parterre.com advertisers for the month of November.

on November 02, 2015 at 9:30 AM
Ow, my keyboard! Ow, my keyboard!

A milestone of sorts is reached today at parterre.com: La Cieca and her team of experts have posted 7,000 articles on this WordPress-powered site since May 2005.

on November 01, 2015 at 1:49 PM
“Du hast eine halbe Million geheiratet” “Du hast eine halbe Million geheiratet”

La Cieca is gratified and even mildly humbled to announce that parterre.com garnered over half a million pageviews in the month of October, representing over 30,000 unique visitors.

on November 01, 2015 at 9:00 AM
Coffee break Coffee break

La Cieca (pictured, in her dreams) would like to pause just a moment in her editrixing duties for a spot of housekeeping.

on October 01, 2015 at 1:53 PM
Summer madness Summer madness

Though La Cieca’s occasional brushes with democracy have not left her with much faith in that form of decision-making, she is going to make the leap anyway and turn some small measure of control over to you, the cher public.

on June 08, 2015 at 11:30 AM
While I was sleeping While I was sleeping

If La Cieca’s life were a romantic comedy, then your doyenne would surely be 1990s era Sandra Bullock, you know, the heroine, right?

on May 26, 2015 at 10:03 AM
O Mäzene! O Mäzene!

It’s been too long, cher public, since La Cieca last lauded the true unsung heroes of parterre box: our advertisers.

on July 01, 2014 at 7:00 AM
What we read What we read

A quick review of statistics for 2013 reveals your top ten favorite parterre pages for the year, cher public.

on January 27, 2014 at 7:02 PM
Weekend in München Weekend in München

“Now, my trip to Munich has been cancelled and I am hoping to be able resell the tickets at face value.”

on December 21, 2013 at 1:04 PM
Take the plunge! Take the plunge!

La Cieca now would like to extend a special offer to performing arts organizations in the Greater New York are who would like to join the parterre.com family of advertisers.

on September 05, 2013 at 9:34 AM
Thank you for your patience! Thank you for your patience!

After an earlier outage, parterre.com is now restored 100% .

on February 09, 2012 at 9:48 PM

Your doyenne and parterre are back from wherever it was they were. Bless you all, cher public!

on August 05, 2011 at 10:22 AM

You asked for it, cher public, and La Cieca is happy to olige: a post to anchor the week’s off-topic and general converation threads.

on June 15, 2011 at 10:25 AM

A member of the cher public has an interesting offer: “I have about 40 years’ worth of the British magazine Opera, most of them bound, which I would love to get rid of (no charge.) No library here is interested, but I thought some opera fanatic might want them. He or she would have to…

on June 08, 2011 at 3:45 PM

Since a number of parterre’s better reviewers have recently left the fold (for the happiest of reasons, to be sure!) La Cieca is looking for a new crop of writers to critique the latest DVD and CD releases. If you’d like to audition for a spot, drop an email to your doyenne including a shipping…

on April 15, 2011 at 1:15 PM

La Cieca asks the cher public (pictured) if commenting is working properly for them on parterre.com since this weekend’s server migration. Anyone having problems posting comments is asked to email La Cieca directly at [email protected].

on April 11, 2011 at 4:52 PM

La Cieca (center) would like to inform the cher public (also pictured) that this weekend parterre.com is moving to a new server in order to provide a faster and smoother user experience (and who of us isn’t in favor of that?) Do be aware, though, that during the transition process, some comments posted today and…

on April 09, 2011 at 11:27 AM

Don’t worry, La Cieca isn’t going to let politics rear its ugly head (or, since we’re talking about La Cieca here, let’s say “its pretty head”); rather, the “social” we’re talking about here is as in “social media.” Just a housekeeping tip or two for you after the jump.

on April 06, 2011 at 11:34 AM

La Cieca is simply overjoyed to announce a handy and fascinating innovation at parterre.com: The Author Archive Page. Each of your doyenne’s stable of scribes will be assigned his and/or her own unique page where every story under that byline will be easily accessible—as, for example, the many and wondrous reviews of Ercole Farnese. Look…

on December 19, 2010 at 1:10 AM

In order to facilitate more in-depth discussion, La Cieca has asked the parterre.com web guru to reinstate “threaded” comments.

on April 28, 2010 at 4:19 PM

This is post number 3,000 on parterre.com.

on April 25, 2010 at 7:25 PM

La Cieca recalls the words of her old, old, old friend Eve Harrington: “In good conscience, I must give credit where credit is due.”  And far be it for La Cieca to begrudge her cher public something so freely given by Little Miss Evil.

on April 02, 2010 at 12:34 PM

La Cieca (not pictured) has been asked to spread the word that the Opera-L list is down due to the power outages in New Jersey where it is hosted. The latest information is that it is hoped to be up sometime Wednesday. UPDATE: Opera-L is now operational again.

on March 16, 2010 at 10:57 AM

A confab with our redoubtable Internets Guru Nick Scholl just now resulted in two innovations. First, for those of you who want a quick and handy way to keep up with recent comments, there is now a comments feed button in the left navigation bar just beneath the display of the most recent mots from…

on January 26, 2010 at 11:10 AM