Mr. Barone, wouldn't your journalistic skills be put to better and significant use in initiating an investigation and then reporting on the alleged use of amplification at the Metropolitan Opera?
https://youtu.be/GE0_UxDDEdc
http://conradlosborne.com/2018/12/14/puccinis-trittico-what/
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Opera's version of the Resistance..thank you for your insight.
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Congratulations! I think we carried your first issue at my East Village store, See Hear.
Thank you Mr. Jordan, THANK you!
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Parterre box is occasionally entertaining but is rarely informative. Better reviews and more accurate reporting is found at the blog called Operawire.
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@Lyndon Blaylock
I read both, and have to respectfully disagree. I learn considerably more from the Parterre Box reviews (and some of the comments) than I do from Operawire.
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@Lyndon Blaylock
I also respectfully disagree; I have learned an incredible amount of information from Parterre. I have been reading it since 2009. Carry on, James Jorden!
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Another celebration of the gay community. How rare and precious!
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Great - the La Scala performance showed the world that the pretentious Ms Opera is not revered as she believes.
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Parterre Box's fundamental raison d'etre is as a diva shrine to James Jorden's three perennial darlings: Maria Callas, Renata Scotto and now Anna Netrebko. In other words, a fanclub. Dissenting opinions on these three are inexplicably closely monitored and often censored. The site has become a gated community of groupthink and any deviation from this groupthink is, again, monitored and censored. What this means is that other important and valuable opinions and discussions that should be occurring are simply banned. Another situation at PB is the curious veneration of the long past before anyone alive could be present and of the dismal present. Go figure. But most of what went on in between those two eras, for example, during the 1980s and 1990s and even the 2000s often goes unremarked, as if nothing ever happened and as if the singers and opera productions involved never existed. These angles were unfortunately omitted from the article.
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@Newoldtimer I don't think this is quite accurate. If criticism is warranted it is tolerated, even for the venerated. It is clear that Mr. Jorden is one of Ms. Netrebko's most ardent supporters; however, it is hardly a site entirely devoted to her achievements. Besides, is there really any question that Ms. Netrebko is not deserving of this venetration at this time in her career?
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@Lou Ann Can we say that Netrebko lacks the textual acuity of Scotto and Callas? Relative to those two, Netrebko is a bulldozer.
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From bathroom stalls to opera halls, what distance Parterre Box has traveled.
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What a charming story and what great innovation. Bringing together all these new-at-the-time tools and creating a much needed breath of fresh air in opera. Passion was the inspiration, not mammon.
All the business experts in the world couldn't predict Parterre Box nor even make a pale copy.
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Charming story, thanks for this.
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Congratulations to La Cieca--Parterre Box is essential reading, informative and entertaining.
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Wow! I thought I WAS an "opera lover". I can't hold a candle to Mr. Jorden. I relinquish the description.
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There is no substitute for passion. This is the most inspirational story I've read in a long time.
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You said it already. The passion and dedication is just wow. Best story I’ve read this week.
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