https://parterre.com/ Opera from a certain point of view Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:54:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://parterre.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/cropped-pb-favicon-02-32x32.png https://parterre.com/ 32 32 https://parterre.com/2026/10/02/wedding-crashers/ https://parterre.com/2026/10/02/wedding-crashers/#respond Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:00:54 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109593 Louise Alder enchants in the comically-inclined revival of Claus Guth’s production of Semele at the Bayerische Staatsoper.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/10/02/wedding-crashers/feed/ 0 109593Photo: Geoffroy Schied https://parterre.com/2026/10/02/a-favorite-mezzo-performance-from-dessaix79/ https://parterre.com/2026/10/02/a-favorite-mezzo-performance-from-dessaix79/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:00:30 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109567 Brigitte Fassbaender tears through the role like no other.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/10/02/a-favorite-mezzo-performance-from-dessaix79/feed/ 16 109567 https://parterre.com/2026/10/01/in-gleis-und-zeir/ https://parterre.com/2026/10/01/in-gleis-und-zeir/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:00:25 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109012 Iwona Sobotka, a favorite of Riccardo Muti, is this week's featured Grand Tier Grab Bag artist]]> https://parterre.com/2026/10/01/in-gleis-und-zeir/feed/ 3 109012Polish soprano Iwona Sobotka https://parterre.com/2026/10/01/a-favorite-mezzo-performance-from-dc-k/ https://parterre.com/2026/10/01/a-favorite-mezzo-performance-from-dc-k/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:00:23 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109365 https://parterre.com/2026/10/01/a-favorite-mezzo-performance-from-dc-k/feed/ 88 109365Metropolitan Opera Archives https://parterre.com/2026/09/30/man-of-the-masses/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/30/man-of-the-masses/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:00:09 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109574 Amartuvshin Enkhbat is superb in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra in San Francisco — even if the drama offstage is more persuasive than this new production.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/30/man-of-the-masses/feed/ 8 109574Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera https://parterre.com/2026/09/29/aria-law/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/29/aria-law/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:00:55 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109561 https://parterre.com/2026/09/29/aria-law/feed/ 25 109561New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during the announcement of the "Opera for All" initiative / Photo: NYC Mayor's Office https://parterre.com/2026/09/29/orefo-tenet/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/29/orefo-tenet/#respond Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:00:26 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109539 Tenet Vocal Artists's first-ever opera production, of Monteverdi's Orfeo, soars to Platonic ideals.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/29/orefo-tenet/feed/ 0 109539 https://parterre.com/2026/09/28/cosi-island/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/28/cosi-island/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:00:24 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109517 The Metropolitan Opera gets its freak on — or about as close as it can —  in a revival of its Coney Island-set production of Così fan tutte. ]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/28/cosi-island/feed/ 39 109517Andrey Zhilikhovsky as Guglielmo, Samantha Hankey as Dorabella, Federica Lombardi as Fiordiligi, and Duke Kim as Ferrando in Mozart's "Così fan tutte." Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera https://parterre.com/2026/09/28/joy-comes-in-the-morning/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/28/joy-comes-in-the-morning/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109518 Yannick Nézet-Séguin opens Philadelphia's symphonic season in typically sunny style with programs feautring Beethoven, Brahms, and Bernstein.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/28/joy-comes-in-the-morning/feed/ 2 109518Photo: Pete Checchia https://parterre.com/2026/09/28/next-season-im-excited-for-a-spring-bouquet-of-handel-operas/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/28/next-season-im-excited-for-a-spring-bouquet-of-handel-operas/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109049 Handel oratorios being performed during the 2025-26 season. This time I’m really looking forward to three of the composer’s operas arriving within a few weeks of each other in Spring 2027.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/28/next-season-im-excited-for-a-spring-bouquet-of-handel-operas/feed/ 115 109049Photo: Gabe Palacio https://parterre.com/2026/09/27/bard-from-entry/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/27/bard-from-entry/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109506 L'Orfeo by Haymarket Opera and The Newberry Consort takes its audience to heaven while its title character goes to hell.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/27/bard-from-entry/feed/ 4 109506Haymarket Opera Company and the Newberry Consort - L'Orfeo (2026) - Featuring Zachary Wilder / Photo: Elliot Mandel https://parterre.com/2026/09/25/next-season-im-excited-formaria-stuarda/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/25/next-season-im-excited-formaria-stuarda/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:00:36 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=108889 https://parterre.com/2026/09/25/next-season-im-excited-formaria-stuarda/feed/ 198 108889Javier del Real https://parterre.com/2026/09/23/great-scot/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/23/great-scot/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:00:03 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109334 Macbeth summons the forces of hell — and the star power of Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen — for a fiery start to the Met's new season.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/23/great-scot/feed/ 118 109334Lise Davidsen as Lady Macbeth and Quinn Kelsey in the title role of Verdi's "Macbeth." Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera https://parterre.com/2026/09/23/next-season-im-excited-for-agneta-eichenholz/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/23/next-season-im-excited-for-agneta-eichenholz/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:00:51 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=108811 https://parterre.com/2026/09/23/next-season-im-excited-for-agneta-eichenholz/feed/ 95 108811 https://parterre.com/2026/09/22/setting-it-ablaze/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/22/setting-it-ablaze/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:00:49 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=108953 Tamara Wilson completes her first Ring Cycle as Brünnhilde next month, and Parterre Box celebrates with a clip of her in Siegfried.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/22/setting-it-ablaze/feed/ 24 108953Tamara Wilson (Brünnhilde) & Andreas Schager in the title role of Paris Opera’s Siegfried Photo: Herwig Prammer https://parterre.com/2026/09/22/all-about-eve/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/22/all-about-eve/#respond Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:00:49 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109318 Haley Whitney shines as the mother of us all in The Marigny Opera Ballet's stirring staging of Scarlatti's Cain.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/22/all-about-eve/feed/ 0 109318Photo: Dmitriy Pritykin https://parterre.com/2026/09/21/next-season-im-excited-for-aigul-akhmetshina-as-dalila/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/21/next-season-im-excited-for-aigul-akhmetshina-as-dalila/#comments Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:00:22 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=108808 https://parterre.com/2026/09/21/next-season-im-excited-for-aigul-akhmetshina-as-dalila/feed/ 119 108808 https://parterre.com/2026/09/20/bang-to-whimper/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/20/bang-to-whimper/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:00:36 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109307 Opera San José opened its season with a new production of Don Giovanni that embraced the opera’s challenges with youthful abandon, even as it was sometimes felled by them.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/20/bang-to-whimper/feed/ 7 109307Photo: Don Lepori/Opera San José https://parterre.com/2026/09/19/next-season-im-excited-for-herodiade/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/19/next-season-im-excited-for-herodiade/#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:00:45 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=108804 Massenet's Hérodiade, albeit in concert from, though I long for a day when the Met or the Lyric Opera of Chicago would give us a staged performance.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/19/next-season-im-excited-for-herodiade/feed/ 119 108804Photo: Dario Acosta https://parterre.com/2026/09/18/in-mind-and-not-in-morals/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/18/in-mind-and-not-in-morals/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:00:31 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109286 The Royal Opera House's Don Giovanni comes without an instruction manual — but features a fine lothario in Gordon Bintner.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/18/in-mind-and-not-in-morals/feed/ 7 109286Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic https://parterre.com/2026/09/17/knowing-when-to-leave-will-never-let-you-reach-the-point-of-no-return/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/17/knowing-when-to-leave-will-never-let-you-reach-the-point-of-no-return/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:00:05 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109265 Andrew Potter retiring at 43, Miles Greenberg sees opera's ethics and economics of impracticality at a breaking point ]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/17/knowing-when-to-leave-will-never-let-you-reach-the-point-of-no-return/feed/ 38 109265Orchestra musicians on strike in front of the San Francisco Opera building on September 10, 2026 / Photo: San Francisco Opera Orchestra Facebook https://parterre.com/2026/09/17/next-season-im-excited-for-silent-night/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/17/next-season-im-excited-for-silent-night/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:00:13 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=108801 https://parterre.com/2026/09/17/next-season-im-excited-for-silent-night/feed/ 84 108801 https://parterre.com/2026/09/16/a-melody-that-begins-a-symphony/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/16/a-melody-that-begins-a-symphony/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:00:29 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109224 Kirill Serebrennikov's latest theatrical experiment in Berlin.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/16/a-melody-that-begins-a-symphony/feed/ 9 109224Photo: Vahid Amanpour https://parterre.com/2026/09/16/triple-crown/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/16/triple-crown/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:00:27 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=108909 Parterre Box draws your attention to another Macbeth taking the stage this month, the triple-threat baritone Luca Micheletti.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/16/triple-crown/feed/ 13 108909Photo: © Mattia Gaido / Teatro Regio Torino https://parterre.com/2026/09/15/a-real-trill/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/15/a-real-trill/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:00:17 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109225 Carlo Vistoli shows he's got the goods across the repertoire at the Park Avenue Armory.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/15/a-real-trill/feed/ 2 109225Carlo Vistoli, countertenor, and Guilio Zappa, piano, perform a recital in the Board of Officer’s Room at the Park Avenue Armory on September 9, 2026. Photo credit: Stephanie Berger https://parterre.com/2026/09/15/next-season-im-excited-for-lear-and-mittwoch-aus-licht/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/15/next-season-im-excited-for-lear-and-mittwoch-aus-licht/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:00:40 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=108798 https://parterre.com/2026/09/15/next-season-im-excited-for-lear-and-mittwoch-aus-licht/feed/ 139 108798Nikon-Testbilder https://parterre.com/2026/09/14/come-sail-away-with-me/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/14/come-sail-away-with-me/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:00:02 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109166 Odyssey.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/14/come-sail-away-with-me/feed/ 17 109166Poster by Georges Rochegrosse for René Fauchois and Gabriel Fauré's Pénélope, used for the Paris première at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées which premièred on 10 May 1913. https://parterre.com/2026/09/13/the-awkward-stage/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/13/the-awkward-stage/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:00:26 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=109209 Mitridate, re di Ponto proves more puerile than perhaps its 14 year-old composer intended.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/13/the-awkward-stage/feed/ 10 109209Farnace argues for a peace treaty with Rome before his father Mitridate (left) throws him in prison Photo by Dominic Mercier https://parterre.com/2026/09/13/next-season-im-looking-forward-to-otello/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/13/next-season-im-looking-forward-to-otello/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:00:09 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=108795 Otello.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/09/13/next-season-im-looking-forward-to-otello/feed/ 148 108795Javier Del Real https://parterre.com/2026/09/11/next-season-im-excited-for-il-pirata/ https://parterre.com/2026/09/11/next-season-im-excited-for-il-pirata/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:00:21 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=108792 https://parterre.com/2026/09/11/next-season-im-excited-for-il-pirata/feed/ 117 108792Photo: Caitlin Oldham