Unnatural Acts of Opera http://parterre.com/unnatural_acts.htm parterre box, the queer opera zine, presents extraordinary opera performances, one act at a time. Hosted by La Cieca, cultural doyenne at parterre box. en-us (c) 2008 La Cieca lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) mirabyte Feed Writer 1.0 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0500 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0500 http://parterre.com/unnatural_itunes.png Unnatural Acts of Opera http://parterre.com/unnatural_acts.htm Music parterre box, the queer opera zine, presents extraordinary opera performances, one act at a time. Hosted by La Cieca, cultural doyenne at parterre box. parterre box, the queer opera zine, presents extraordinary opera performances, one act at a time. Hosted by La Cieca, cultural doyenne at parterre box. Grace Bumbry and Shirley Verrett Concert Part 1 Grace Bumbry & Shirley Verrett
Concert in Honor of Marian Anderson
Verdi: La battaglia di Legnano
Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Verdi: Macbeth
Spontini: La Vestale
Donizetti: Anna Bolena
Opera Orchestra of New York; Eve Queler.
Carnegie Hall, New York, 31 January 1982.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/BUMBRY_VERRETT_PART_1.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0500 La Cieca 00:51:49 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox 1982 1982 Lohengrin (Wagner) Act 3 Lohengrin: Jess Thomas
Elsa: Claire Watson
Telramund: Walter Berry
Ortrud: Christa Ludwig
Koenig Heinrich: Martti Talvela
Heerrufer: Eberhard Waechter

Vienna State Opera, Karl Boehm, 1965.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/LOHENGRIN_ACT_3.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:00:00 -0500 La Cieca 00:59:57 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox Vienna, 1965 Vienna, 1965 Lohengrin (Wagner) Act 2 Lohengrin: Jess Thomas
Elsa: Claire Watson
Telramund: Walter Berry
Ortrud: Christa Ludwig
Koenig Heinrich: Martti Talvela
Heerrufer: Eberhard Waechter

Vienna State Opera, Karl Boehm, 1965.

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Elsa: Claire Watson
Telramund: Walter Berry
Ortrud: Christa Ludwig
Koenig Heinrich: Martti Talvela
Heerrufer: Eberhard Waechter

Vienna State Opera, Karl Boehm, 1965.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/LOHENGRIN_ACT_1.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:00:00 -0500 La Cieca 01:02:11 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox Vienna, 1965 Vienna, 1965 Hamlet (Thomas) Acts 4 and 5 Hamlet: Simon Keenlyside
Claudius: Robert Lloyd
Gertrude: Yvonne Naef
Ophelie: Natalie Dessay
Laerte: Yann Beuron
Le Spectre: Markus Hollop
Marcellus: Edgaras Montvidas
Horatio: Graeme Broadbent
Polonius: Jonathan May
Gravediggers: Darren Jeffery, Matthew Beale.

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Louis Langree.
May 20, 2003.

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Claudius: Robert Lloyd
Gertrude: Yvonne Naef
Ophelie: Natalie Dessay
Laerte: Yann Beuron
Le Spectre: Markus Hollop
Marcellus: Edgaras Montvidas
Horatio: Graeme Broadbent
Polonius: Jonathan May
Gravediggers: Darren Jeffery, Matthew Beale.

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Louis Langree.
May 20, 2003.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/HAMLET_ACT_3.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:00:00 -0500 La Cieca 00:45:18 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox May 20, 2003 May 20, 2003 Hamlet (Thomas) Act 2 Hamlet: Simon Keenlyside
Claudius: Robert Lloyd
Gertrude: Yvonne Naef
Ophelie: Natalie Dessay
Laerte: Yann Beuron
Le Spectre: Markus Hollop
Marcellus: Edgaras Montvidas
Horatio: Graeme Broadbent
Polonius: Jonathan May
Gravediggers: Darren Jeffery, Matthew Beale.

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Louis Langree.
May 20, 2003.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/HAMLET_ACT_2.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:00:00 -0500 La Cieca 00:52:21 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox May 20, 2003 May 20, 2003 Hamlet (Thomas) Act 1 Hamlet: Simon Keenlyside
Claudius: Robert Lloyd
Gertrude: Yvonne Naef
Ophelie: Natalie Dessay
Laerte: Yann Beuron
Le Spectre: Markus Hollop
Marcellus: Edgaras Montvidas
Horatio: Graeme Broadbent
Polonius: Jonathan May
Gravediggers: Darren Jeffery, Matthew Beale.

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Louis Langree.
May 20, 2003.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/HAMLET_ACT_1.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:00:00 -0500 La Cieca 00:52:34 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox May 20, 2003 May 20, 2003 Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer) Acts 4 and 5 Raoul de Nangis - Marcello Giordani
Valentine - Annalisa Raspaglosi
Marguerite di Valois - Diana Damrau
Le Comte de Saint-Bris - Frode Olsen
Nevers - Zeljko Lucic
Urbain - Sara Alegretta
Marcel - Soon-Won Kang
De Cosse - Jacek Pazola
Maurevert - Simon Bailey
Tavannes - Peter Marsh
November 26, 2002. Frankfurter Museumsorchester; Conductor: Guido Johanes Rumstadt.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/LES_HUGUENOTS_ACTS_4_AND_5.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:00:00 -0500 La Cieca 01:21:14 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox November 26, 2002 November 26, 2002 Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer) Acts 2 and 3 Raoul de Nangis - Marcello Giordani
Valentine - Annalisa Raspaglosi
Marguerite di Valois - Diana Damrau
Le Comte de Saint-Bris - Frode Olsen
Nevers - Zeljko Lucic
Urbain - Sara Alegretta
Marcel - Soon-Won Kang
De Cosse - Jacek Pazola
Maurevert - Simon Bailey
Tavannes - Peter Marsh
November 26, 2002. Frankfurter Museumsorchester; Conductor: Guido Johanes Rumstadt.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/LES_HUGUENOTS_ACTS_2_AND_3.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:00:00 -0500 La Cieca 01:21:14 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox November 26, 2002 November 26, 2002 Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer) Act 1 Raoul de Nangis - Marcello Giordani
Valentine - Annalisa Raspaglosi
Marguerite di Valois - Diana Damrau
Le Comte de Saint-Bris - Frode Olsen
Nevers - Zeljko Lucic
Urbain - Sara Alegretta
Marcel - Soon-Won Kang
De Cosse - Jacek Pazola
Maurevert - Simon Bailey
Tavannes - Peter Marsh
November 26, 2002. Frankfurter Museumsorchester; Conductor: Guido Johanes Rumstadt.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/LES_HUGUENOTS_ACT_1.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:00:00 -0500 La Cieca 01:01:19 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox November 26, 2002 November 26, 2002 Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) Act 2 Lucrezia Borgia - Montserrat Caballe
Gennaro - Alain Vanzo
Maffio Orsini - Jane Berbie
Don Alfonso - Kostas Paskalis
Jacopo Liveretto - Jerold Siena
Don Apostolo Gazella - Vern Shinall
Ascanio Petrucci - William Wiederanders
Oloferno Vitellozzo - L.D. Clements
Gubetta - Adib Fazah
Rustighello - Mauro Lampi
Astolfo - Arnold Voketatis
American Opera Society, New York; Jonel Perlea.
April 20, 1965.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/LUCREZIA_BORGIA_1965_ACT_2.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Fri, 23 May 2008 20:00:00 -0500 La Cieca 00:54:54 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox April 20, 1965 April 20, 1965 Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) Act 1 Lucrezia Borgia - Montserrat Caballe
Gennaro - Alain Vanzo
Maffio Orsini - Jane Berbie
Don Alfonso - Kostas Paskalis
Jacopo Liveretto - Jerold Siena
Don Apostolo Gazella - Vern Shinall
Ascanio Petrucci - William Wiederanders
Oloferno Vitellozzo - L.D. Clements
Gubetta - Adib Fazah
Rustighello - Mauro Lampi
Astolfo - Arnold Voketatis
American Opera Society, New York; Jonel Perlea.
April 20, 1965.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/LUCREZIA_BORGIA_1965_ACT_1.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Sun, 18 May 2008 00:15:00 -0500 La Cieca 00:53:10 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox April 20, 1965 April 20, 1965 Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti) Prologue Lucrezia Borgia - Montserrat Caballe
Gennaro - Alain Vanzo
Maffio Orsini - Jane Berbie
Don Alfonso - Kostas Paskalis
Jacopo Liveretto - Jerold Siena
Don Apostolo Gazella - Vern Shinall
Ascanio Petrucci - William Wiederanders
Oloferno Vitellozzo - L.D. Clements
Gubetta - Adib Fazah
Rustighello - Mauro Lampi
Astolfo - Arnold Voketatis
American Opera Society, New York; Jonel Perlea.
April 20, 1965.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/LUCREZIA_BORGIA_1965_PROLOGUE.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Thu, 08 May 2008 23:43:29 -0500 La Cieca 00:53:08 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox April 20, 1965 April 20, 1965 Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Act 3 Tristan - Spas Wenkoff
Isolde - Catarina Ligendza
Brangaene - Yvonne Minton
Marke - Karl Ridderbusch
Kurwenal - Donald McIntyre
Melot - Heribert Steinbach
Steuermann - Heinz Feldhoff
Hirte - Heinz Zednik
Carlos Kleiber; Bayreuther Festspiele, 30 July 1976.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/TRISTAN_1976_ACT_3.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:07:58 -0500 La Cieca 01:16:34 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox Bayreuther Festspiele, 30 July 1976 Bayreuther Festspiele, 30 July 1976 Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Act 2 Tristan - Spas Wenkoff
Isolde - Catarina Ligendza
Brangaene - Yvonne Minton
Marke - Karl Ridderbusch
Kurwenal - Donald McIntyre
Melot - Heribert Steinbach
Steuermann - Heinz Feldhoff
Hirte - Heinz Zednik
Carlos Kleiber; Bayreuther Festspiele, 30 July 1976.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/TRISTAN_1976_ACT_2.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:25:25 -0500 La Cieca 01:20:58 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox Bayreuther Festspiele, 30 July 1976 Bayreuther Festspiele, 30 July 1976 Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) Act 1 Tristan - Spas Wenkoff
Isolde - Catarina Ligendza
Brangaene - Yvonne Minton
Marke - Karl Ridderbusch
Kurwenal - Donald McIntyre
Melot - Heribert Steinbach
Steuermann - Heinz Feldhoff
Hirte - Heinz Zednik
Carlos Kleiber; Bayreuther Festspiele, 30 July 1976.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/TRISTAN_1976_ACT_1.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:49:27 -0500 La Cieca 01:20:23 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox Bayreuther Festspiele, 30 July 1976 Bayreuther Festspiele, 30 July 1976 Edipo Re (Leoncavallo) Creon - Keith Lewis
Oedipus - Alan Titus
Jocasta - Yvonne Naef
Messenger - Roland Bracht
Shepherd - Johannes Chum
Teiresias - Cheyne Davidson.

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus; Dennis Russell Davies. 1998.

]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/edipo_re.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:00:47 -0500 La Cieca 01:01:20 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox 1998 1998 Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini) Part 2 Marchesa Melibea: Lucia Valentini-Terrani;
Contessa di Folleville: Lella Cuberli;
Madama Cortese: Montserrat Caballe;
Cavalier Belfiore: Frank Lopardo;
Conte di Libenskof: Chris Merritt;
Lord Sidney: Ferruccio Furlanetto;
Don Profondo: Ruggero Raimondi;
Barone di Trombonok: Enzo Dara;
Don Alvaro: Lucio Gallo;
Don Prudenzio: Goran Simic;
Don Luigino: Paolo Pellegrini;
Maddalena: Gabriele Sima;
Modestina: Barbara Frittoli;
Antonio: Marzio Giossi;
Gelsomino: Ezio Pirovano.
Vienna State Opera, 20 January 1988.
Conductor: Claudio Abbado. ]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/IL_VIAGGIO_A_REIMS_PART_2.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/ Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:40:56 -0500 La Cieca 01:00:22 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox January 1988 January 1988 Il viaggio a Reims (Rossini) Part 1 Marchesa Melibea: Lucia Valentini-Terrani;
Contessa di Folleville: Lella Cuberli;
Madama Cortese: Montserrat Caballe;
Cavalier Belfiore: Frank Lopardo;
Conte di Libenskof: Chris Merritt;
Lord Sidney: Ferruccio Furlanetto;
Don Profondo: Ruggero Raimondi;
Barone di Trombonok: Enzo Dara;
Don Alvaro: Lucio Gallo;
Don Prudenzio: Goran Simic;
Don Luigino: Paolo Pellegrini;
Maddalena: Gabriele Sima;
Modestina: Barbara Frittoli;
Antonio: Marzio Giossi;
Gelsomino: Ezio Pirovano.
Vienna State Opera, 20 January 1988.
Conductor: Claudio Abbado. ]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/IL_VIAGGIO_A_REIMS_PART_1.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/?page_id=40 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:46:16 -0500 La Cieca 01:27:04 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox January 1988 January 1988 Faust (Gounod) Acts 4 and 5 Mephistopheles: Samuel Ramey;
Valentin: Richard Stilwell;
Siebel: Gwendolyn Jones;
Marguerite: Diana Soviero;
Marthe: Geraldine Decker.
Tulsa Opera, March 1986. Edoardo Mueller. ]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/FAUST_1986_PART_3.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/?page_id=40 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:00:00 -0500 Music La Cieca 01:09:39 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox March 1986 March 1986 Faust (Gounod) Act 3 Mephistopheles: Samuel Ramey;
Valentin: Richard Stilwell;
Siebel: Gwendolyn Jones;
Marguerite: Diana Soviero;
Marthe: Geraldine Decker.
Tulsa Opera, March 1986. Edoardo Mueller. ]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/FAUST_1986_PART_2.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/unnatural_acts.htm Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:00:00 -0500 Music La Cieca 01:08:56 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox March 1986 March 1986 Faust (Gounod) Acts 1 and 2 Mephistopheles: Samuel Ramey;
Valentin: Richard Stilwell;
Siebel: Gwendolyn Jones;
Marguerite: Diana Soviero;
Marthe: Geraldine Decker.
Tulsa Opera, March 1986. Edoardo Mueller. ]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/FAUST_1986_PART_1.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/unnatural_acts.htm Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:00:00 -0500 Music La Cieca 01:04:39 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox March 1986 March 1986 Macbeth (Verdi) Act 4 Lady Macbeth - Shirley Verrett;
Banco - Nicolai Ghiaurov;
Macduff - Franco Tagliavini;
Malcolm - Nicola Martinucci.
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala.
Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
December 7 1975. ]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/MACBETH_1975_ACT_4.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/unnatural_acts.htm Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:00:00 -0500 Music La Cieca 01:06:10 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox December 7 1975 December 7 1975 Macbeth (Verdi) Acts 2 and 3 Lady Macbeth - Shirley Verrett;
Banco - Nicolai Ghiaurov;
Macduff - Franco Tagliavini;
Malcolm - Nicola Martinucci.
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala.
Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
December 7 1975.
Special feature: Miss Tallulah Bankhead joins the Apocryphal Opera Anecdote Theater of the Air for scenes from Shakespeare's Macbeth. ]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/MACBETH_1975_ACTS_2_AND_3.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/unnatural_acts.htm Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:00:00 -0500 Music La Cieca 00:56:58 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox December 7 1975 December 7 1975 Macbeth (Verdi) Act 1 Lady Macbeth - Shirley Verrett;
Banco - Nicolai Ghiaurov;
Macduff - Franco Tagliavini;
Malcolm - Nicola Martinucci.
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala.
Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
December 7 1975.]]> http://media.libsyn.com/media/parterrebox/MACBETH_1975_ACT_1.mp3 lacieca@parterre.com (La Cieca) http://parterre.com/unnatural_acts.htm Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:00:00 -0500 Music La Cieca 01:03:23 music,opera,queer,demented,cieca,la cieca,parterre,parterrebox December 7 1975 December 7 1975