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I've taken my obsession with adapting books into operas to @ParterreBox parterre.com/2025/09/25/nov…

For my @ParterreBox debut I evaluate the 5 staged operatic offerings at this year's @festival_aix (Don Giovanni, Billy Budd, Louise, Nine Jeweled Deer & La Calisto). Thanks to @harryrose670 for commissioning & letting me make some corny "Aix"-related puns! parterre.com/2025/08/05/the…

Somewhere out there, someone (possibly an unpaid summer intern) is sorting through a Google drive of 1,500 videos of “Hai già vinta la causa,” and I wish to hold them in prayer.

Thoroughly enjoyed writing this piece. Thank you, Sherrill Milnes and Maria Zouves, for letting me tell your story, and thanks to the good people at @ParterreBox for running it. parterre.com/2025/08/01/a-l…

Proud to announce that @ParterreBox has its first full-fledged hater of the post-JJ era parterre.com/2025/07/22/cha…

My latest: Norma, leaving the Risorgimento alone and the perils of sharing a stage with Vasilisa Berzhanskaya. parterre.com/2025/07/25/the…

I reviewed the met’s first salome in 20 years and was very restrained and tasteful in the things I was saying about peter mattei’s jochanaan. so there. check it ou: parterre.com/2025/05/03/lit…

@ParterreBox wants YOU to contribute to its newest daily feature! parterre.com/2024/11/30/and…

This revival isn’t a perfect one, but as a machine for interpretation (and a machine in its own right), it’s in damn good working order. parterre.com/2024/12/02/tri…

Someone pls write an elaborate framing device for an excerpt concert abt how they’re knocking down the Festspielhaus tomorrow and the gang of old Wagnerians has assembled one last time to stumble through an act or two and lie about themselves a little... parterre.com/2024/11/07/nex…

"We’re in a bigger, better war for your patriotic pastime; We don’t know what we’re fighting for — But we didn’t know the last time!" John Yohalem on the @MasterVoicesNY revival of Strike Up the Band. parterre.com/2024/11/04/the…

"I’ve always been of the opinion that anyone who disdains this great score or thinks the story silly ought to be confined to the TV room during a Marx Brothers retrospective." On the @MetOpera Trovatore revival. parterre.com/2024/10/28/fiv…

"One of the striking features of the program was how quickly and seamlessly @Lisette_Oropesa could turn on a dime from extroverted vocal display to quiet introspection or sensuous languor in the more serious song selections." parterre.com/2024/10/29/cas…

I reviewed ainadamar at the met: an opera about federico garcia lorca that I somehow walked out of feeling like I knew less about lorca than I did going in parterre.com/2024/10/17/spa…

Sorry, we made a whole podcast episode out of one Trovatore recit sung by 50 sopranos. Listen and guess who's who: parterre.com/2024/10/14/fea…

"Call it my fatalistic Gen Z snowflake tendencies, but I can’t see this as a giddy gay party record schlock campfest rather than just a bummer." @harryrose670 reviews Saioia Hernandez's new verismo album. parterre.com/2024/10/11/the…

"It’s not so much that I hated Grounded. I’m just not convinced that it should have been an opera." @mxmaxwellkeller on the Met's newie. parterre.com/2024/10/09/nos…