The Metropolitan Opera Guild has come such a long way since the days of dear Mrs. August Belmont!
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
Has “opera-queen culture” really burned out?
The scribe is Zachary Woolfe and the powderkeg topic du jour is Anna Netrebko‘s mid-scene breaking of character.
“…dramatic personalities are drawn to opera, not influenced by it.” [Psychology Today]
