https://parterre.com/ Opera from a certain point of view Sun, 31 May 2026 19:42:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://parterre.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/cropped-pb-favicon-02-32x32.png https://parterre.com/ 32 32 https://parterre.com/2026/06/01/denise-duval-should-have-made-it-to-the-met/ https://parterre.com/2026/06/01/denise-duval-should-have-made-it-to-the-met/#respond Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:00:24 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107669 Denise Duval (1921-2015) is special to me.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/06/01/denise-duval-should-have-made-it-to-the-met/feed/ 0 107669 https://parterre.com/2026/06/01/the-berlin-stories/ https://parterre.com/2026/06/01/the-berlin-stories/#respond Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:00:08 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107728 https://parterre.com/2026/06/01/the-berlin-stories/feed/ 0 107728Nixon in China at the Deutsche Oper Berlin / Photo: Thomas Aurin https://parterre.com/2026/05/31/the-grand-salzburg-hotel/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/31/the-grand-salzburg-hotel/#comments Sun, 31 May 2026 13:00:55 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107753 Il viaggio a Reims.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/31/the-grand-salzburg-hotel/feed/ 4 107753Giovanni Romeo (Don Prudenzio), Helena Rasker (Maddalena), Rafał Pawnuk (Antonio) in Il viaggio a Reims at the Salzburg Festival / Photo: Monika Rittershaus/Salzburg Festival https://parterre.com/2026/05/31/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-eli-jacobson/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/31/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-eli-jacobson/#comments Sun, 31 May 2026 10:00:15 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107535 Renata Tebaldi, just about 29 years old as Saint Joan in a RAI broadcast of Giovanna d'Arco from 1951.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/31/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-eli-jacobson/feed/ 54 107535 https://parterre.com/2026/05/30/his-infinite-variety/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/30/his-infinite-variety/#respond Sat, 30 May 2026 13:00:36 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107730 Le Bu’s recital with Vocal Arts DC highlighted his linguistic and timbral versatility.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/30/his-infinite-variety/feed/ 0 107730Photo courtesy of Minerva Artists https://parterre.com/2026/05/30/she-speaks/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/30/she-speaks/#comments Sat, 30 May 2026 13:00:07 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107662 The Talk of the Town.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/30/she-speaks/feed/ 1 107662 https://parterre.com/2026/05/30/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-pfeliks/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/30/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-pfeliks/#comments Sat, 30 May 2026 10:00:18 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107540 Anna Netrebko.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/30/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-pfeliks/feed/ 42 107540© Salzburger Festspiele / Forster https://parterre.com/2026/05/29/were-you-silent-or-were-you-silenced/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/29/were-you-silent-or-were-you-silenced/#comments Fri, 29 May 2026 13:00:46 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107729 Die schweigsame Frau at the Berlin Staatsoper has precious little to say.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/29/were-you-silent-or-were-you-silenced/feed/ 8 107729Photo: Bernd Uhlig https://parterre.com/2026/05/29/a-springtime-baroque-bouquet/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/29/a-springtime-baroque-bouquet/#comments Fri, 29 May 2026 13:00:36 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107718 Lauren Snouffer, Key'mon Murrah, and the Oratorio Society of New York.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/29/a-springtime-baroque-bouquet/feed/ 2 107718Les Talens Lyriques and Key’mon Murrah perform in the Frick Collection’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium Photo: Cris Sunwoo © The Frick Collection https://parterre.com/2026/05/29/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-larry-wolff/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/29/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-larry-wolff/#comments Fri, 29 May 2026 10:00:13 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107026 Trovatore in October 2015 at the Met, a few months after we learned that Hvorostovsky was dying]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/29/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-larry-wolff/feed/ 38 107026 https://parterre.com/2026/05/28/count-your-blessings-2/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/28/count-your-blessings-2/#comments Thu, 28 May 2026 13:00:43 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107483 Ariunbaatar Ganbataar is the subject of this week's Grand Tier Grab Bag.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/28/count-your-blessings-2/feed/ 11 107483Photo: Marcello Orselli https://parterre.com/2026/05/28/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-swordsnsolvers/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/28/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-swordsnsolvers/#comments Thu, 28 May 2026 10:00:23 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107547 Riccardo Muti as a Verdi conductor.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/28/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-swordsnsolvers/feed/ 58 107547 https://parterre.com/2026/05/27/on-the-party-platform/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/27/on-the-party-platform/#comments Wed, 27 May 2026 13:00:36 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107654 Franz Welser-Möst 's polished, if dramatically inert, Fidelio.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/27/on-the-party-platform/feed/ 15 107654Photo: Yevhen Gulenko, courtesy of The Cleveland Orchestra https://parterre.com/2026/05/27/in-my-end-is-my-beginning/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/27/in-my-end-is-my-beginning/#comments Wed, 27 May 2026 13:00:16 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107660 https://parterre.com/2026/05/27/in-my-end-is-my-beginning/feed/ 6 107660Photo: Elizabeth Asher https://parterre.com/2026/05/27/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-sanford-schimel/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/27/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-sanford-schimel/#comments Wed, 27 May 2026 10:00:13 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107544 Anna Moffo.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/27/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-sanford-schimel/feed/ 73 107544 https://parterre.com/2026/05/26/gorgon-wild/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/26/gorgon-wild/#comments Tue, 26 May 2026 13:00:58 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107543 Iain Bell and Lydia Steier's Medusa stuns in Brussels.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/26/gorgon-wild/feed/ 30 107543 https://parterre.com/2026/05/26/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-john-danaher/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/26/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-john-danaher/#comments Tue, 26 May 2026 10:00:41 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107341 Otello with Jon Vickers in the title role and the Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus under the baton of the masterly Tullio Serafin.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/26/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-john-danaher/feed/ 52 107341 https://parterre.com/2026/05/25/garden-leave/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/25/garden-leave/#comments Mon, 25 May 2026 13:00:51 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107557 Brigitte Fassbaender’s acid-laced production of La finta giardiniera leans into the absurdities of Mozart’s early dramma giocoso.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/25/garden-leave/feed/ 14 107557 https://parterre.com/2026/05/25/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-niel-rishoi/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/25/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-niel-rishoi/#comments Mon, 25 May 2026 10:00:14 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107356 Tebaldi, at La scala, in one of her nights of glory, where the voice poured out effortlessly, singing with utter conviction, and no soprano ever appealed to God more fervently.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/25/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-niel-rishoi/feed/ 34 107356 https://parterre.com/2026/05/25/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-brendan-latimer/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/25/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-brendan-latimer/#comments Mon, 25 May 2026 10:00:07 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107538 Sherrill Milnes in his electrifying performance of Iago's credo (1979, Met).]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/25/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-brendan-latimer/feed/ 3 107538 https://parterre.com/2026/05/24/i-could-escape-this-feeling-with-my-china-girl/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/24/i-could-escape-this-feeling-with-my-china-girl/#comments Sun, 24 May 2026 13:00:10 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107086 Turandot? "The Dancing Goddess” at the China Institute Gallery gives us a glimpse at a real Peking Opera queen.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/24/i-could-escape-this-feeling-with-my-china-girl/feed/ 3 107086 https://parterre.com/2026/05/24/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-krunoslav/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/24/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-krunoslav/#comments Sun, 24 May 2026 10:00:12 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107353 Abbado Deutsche Grammophon studio set, this 1980 San Francisco Opera live Simon Boccanegra under Lamberto Gardelli has an emotional punch.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/24/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-krunoslav/feed/ 44 107353 https://parterre.com/2026/05/23/the-anxiety-of-influencer/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/23/the-anxiety-of-influencer/#respond Sat, 23 May 2026 13:00:30 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107511 Constance: A Confession, presented in Brooklyn by Experiments in Opera, satirizes our digital age with style.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/23/the-anxiety-of-influencer/feed/ 0 107511Photo: Silin Chen https://parterre.com/2026/05/23/difficult-people/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/23/difficult-people/#comments Sat, 23 May 2026 13:00:05 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107550 Anna Pirozzi makes a welcome return to the Metropolitan Opera, but Turandot remains as thorny as ever.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/23/difficult-people/feed/ 58 107550Anna Pirozzi in the title role of Puccini's "Turandot." Photo: Jonathan Tichler / Met Opera https://parterre.com/2026/05/23/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-david-phillips/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/23/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-david-phillips/#comments Sat, 23 May 2026 10:00:31 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107328 https://parterre.com/2026/05/23/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-david-phillips/feed/ 8 107328 https://parterre.com/2026/05/22/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-michael-m-landman-karny/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/22/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-michael-m-landman-karny/#comments Fri, 22 May 2026 10:00:34 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107325 Nadine Sierra's Gilda at the Metropolitan Opera had that rare quality of sounding both immaculate and spontaneous, as if Verdi's lines were being discovered in the moment rather than executed.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/22/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-michael-m-landman-karny/feed/ 37 107325 https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/dream-a-little-dream-of-me-2/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/dream-a-little-dream-of-me-2/#comments Thu, 21 May 2026 13:00:45 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107510 Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego enchants and surprises despite the Disnified treatment of its subject matter.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/dream-a-little-dream-of-me-2/feed/ 17 107510Carlos Álvarez as Diego and Isabel Leonard as Frida in a scene from Gabriela Lena Frank's El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego. / Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/the-pennsylvania-dutchman/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/the-pennsylvania-dutchman/#comments Thu, 21 May 2026 13:00:25 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107497 Stiffelio goes Amish in Vienna, featuring a stellar Luciano Ganci in the title role. ]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/the-pennsylvania-dutchman/feed/ 5 107497Photo: Werner Kmetitsch https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/less-is-more/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/less-is-more/#comments Thu, 21 May 2026 13:00:12 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107496 Vanessa is spare and compelling in Heartbeat Opera's production.]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/less-is-more/feed/ 23 107496Inna Dukach as Vanessa and Freddie Ballentine as Anatol / Photo: Maria Baranova https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-moe-rear/ https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-moe-rear/#comments Thu, 21 May 2026 10:00:58 +0000 https://parterre.com/?p=107322 Tito Gobbi's performance of Rigoletto's "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata" offers the most musically and dramatically complete portrait of Verdi's tortured court jester that I have ever heard. ]]> https://parterre.com/2026/05/21/a-favorite-verdi-performance-from-moe-rear/feed/ 23 107322