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parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 4h

Seen and heard

Mere days remain to contribute to The Talk of the Town for the rest of the year!

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 5h

Nothing makes me feel better than The Cunning Little Vixen

Nothing makes me feel better than The Cunning Little Vixen

The opera is life affirming, but also recognizes that life comes to an end.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 1d

Mommy and me

Today's Grand Tier Grab Bag features Chiara Isotton and Joyce El-Khoury as two murderous mommies in the final scene of Cherubini's Medea (and Medée)

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing makes me feel better than Elektra

Nothing makes me feel better than Elektra

My comfort opera is Elektra. Yes, you read correctly, Elektra.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing makes me feel better than the 1961 performance of Turandot

Nothing makes me feel better than the 1961 performance of Turandot

The old Nilsson/Corelli radio checks from the 1960s are a reminder that what this opera needs are VOICES.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 3d

Ain’t no mountain high enough

Ain’t no mountain high enough

A new production of La sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera is musically charming if dramatically confounding.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 4d

Seeing double

Jonas Kaufmann has a new lieder album called Doppelgänger, but the contents of the album vary depending on how you purchase it.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing makes me feel better than Roberta Peters in Die Zauberflöte

Nothing makes me feel better than Roberta Peters in Die Zauberflöte

Other queens have been richer of voice or more dramatically compelling, but none I have ever heard succeeds in sounding something other than human.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 5d

Only vaulting ambition

Only vaulting ambition

Macbeth at the Festival Verdi in Parma aims big -- on a small scale

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing makes me feel better than Conchita Supervia

Nothing makes me feel better than Conchita Supervia

Conchita Supervia (1895-1936), Spanish mezzo, never fails to lift my spirits, in practically everything she sang.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 8d

Moor is more

A pair of Otellos – in Madrid and Parma – is a study in contrasts.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 8d

Nothing makes me feel better than Tosca

Nothing makes me feel better than Tosca

Suck it, Joseph Kerman: Puccini’s “Shabby Little Shocker” has outlived you and will probably bury us all.

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Carmen CP @carmenchloie.bsky.social · 14d

I've taken my obsession with adapting books into operas to @parterrebox.bsky.social

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Novel ideas - Parterre Box

Carmen Paddock looks at contemporary opera's prestige literary turn and what it takes for operas adopted from novels to last.

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Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social · 9d

I really enjoyed talking shop about opera and writing with @kevinng.bsky.social for @parterrebox.bsky.social.

Kevin Ng @kevinng.bsky.social · 9d

I had the immense privilege to interview @garthgreenwell.bsky.social for @parterrebox.bsky.social about literature, opera, and queer aesthetics

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What belongs to us - Parterre Box

Kevin Ng sits down with PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novelist and critic Garth Greenwell to talk about sex, queerness, and the "promise of opera."

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 9d

What belongs to us

What belongs to us

Kevin Ng sits down with PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novelist and critic Garth Greenwell to talk about sex, queerness, and the "promise of opera."

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 9d

Nothing makes me feel better than Wozzeck

Nothing makes me feel better than Wozzeck

Wozzeck. Yes, really.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 10d

Nothing makes me feel better than Grisélidis

Nothing makes me feel better than Grisélidis

From an early age I knew I should have been French.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 11d

It all began tonight

It all began tonight

West Side Story opened LA Opera's 40th anniversary season with fury and flair

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 11d

Folle ebbrezza!

Folle ebbrezza!

Today’s Grand Tier Grab Bag features a snippet from Carolina López Moreno and Antonio Pappano's recent Rondine in London.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 12d

Storybored

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was, somehow, a fun night at the opera—just not one that felt specifically operatic.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 12d

Next season I’m excited for Bellini operas at the Met

Next season I’m excited for Bellini operas at the Met

We will have two Bellinis in new productions, with the best possible casts that can be assembled.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 14d

Next season I’m excited for Handel oratorios

Next season I’m excited for Handel oratorios

Messiah remains ubiquitous, but several of Handel’s other superb English oratorios will be given enticing performances during the 2025-26 season.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 15d

Polish and poise

Polish and poise

Today’s Grand Tier Grab Bag offers Raehann Bryce-Davis in Marina’s aria from a broadcast of Boris conducted by Vasily Petrenko.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 15d

Next season I’m excited for Andrea Chénier

Next season I’m excited for Andrea Chénier

Next season I am looking forward to performances of Andrea Chénier at the Met.

parterre box @parterrebox.bsky.social · 16d

Reunited and it feels so good

Reunited and it feels so good

When Angela Meade and Michael Fabiano first sang Lucia together as students at AVA few would have predicted that they would go on to sing Turandot 16 years later.