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Parterre Box (often stylized as parterre box) is an online magazine devoted to opera, which cultivates an attitude that may be deemed to be campy, critical and opinionated with explicitly gay overtones. The publication was founded by the New Yorker James Jorden in 1993 [1] during a period of under-employment as an opera director. [2]
The antics of parterre audiences included mimicking performances, ogling at the women in the boxes, and making fun of people, as in one performance when "a few misfits in the parterre made sure the whole hall noticed one unlucky woman whose wig was taller than the door to her box."
Jorden's work with parterre box also includes a podcast, Unnatural Acts of Opera. Parterre Box and Jorden have been featured in numerous media publications, including Opera News magazine, The Advocate, and The New York Times. [3] He also worked for a time as a web producer for Fox News. [4] Until 2013, he was employed full-time as a legal ...
Claude Mollet, from a dynasty of nurserymen-designers that lasted into the 18th century, developed the parterre in France.His inspiration in developing the 16th-century patterned compartimens (i.e., simple interlaces formed of herbs, either open and infilled with sand, or closed and filled with flowers) was the painter Etienne du Pérac, who returned from Italy to the Château d'Anet near ...
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An opera production of Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator at a 'block box' events centre in Auckland, New Zealand Backstage area of the Vienna State Opera. A theater building or structure contains spaces for an event or performance to take place, usually called the stage, and also spaces for the audience, theater staff, performers and crew before and after the event.
He was a frequent contributor to parterre box, [13] The New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and Newsday. He was a frequent contributor to Opera News in the 1990s. For the Metropolitan Opera Guild, produced by Paul Gruber, he recorded 20 tapes/CDs of opera, some with him at the piano.
James Jorden launched Parterre Box, a magazine devoted to opera, in 1993; since 2001 it is purely published as a blog. [5] In November 2006, the British arts journalist and author Norman Lebrecht devoted his weekly column in the Evening Standard to the proliferation of classical music blogs but attacked the accuracy of much of their reporting, describing them as "opinion-rich and info-poor".