Here’s a project apparently nobody has thought of and it’s a sure winner: Semiramide with Cecilia Bartoli and Franco Fagioli.
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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.
La Cieca is delighted to note that the Royal Opera, Covent Garden has decided to follow the successful lead of so many American opera companies.
“Billy Zane, star of James Cameron’s blockbuster Titanic and Broadway’s Chicago, cast as Captain von Trapp.”
Happy birthday to baritone Zachary Gordin, cover boy for this year’s Barihunk Wall Calendar.
She’s been a showgirl, a bubble dancer, a drag king, and of course a maimed statue.
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Parterre Box welcomes pitches from all interested writers—even those not endowed quite as pictured.
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