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**parterre box presents Chris’s Cache**

Hosted by La Cieca, cultural doyenne at parterre box, the queer opera zine.

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Bellini: La sonnambula (London 1981) Aug 28, 2026

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Amina: Ileana Cotrubas Lisa: Elizabeth Gale Teresa: Phyllis Cannan Elvino: Dennis O'Neill Rodolfo: Robert Lloyd

Conductor: Manfred Ramin (Cotrubas's husband) Royal Opera, Covent Garden 18 November 1981 Broadcast

Gounod: Faust (Hamburg 1985) Aug 28, 2026

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Marguerite: Ileana Cotrubas Siebel: Rachel Joselson Marthe: Olive Fredricks Faust: Neil Shicoff Mephisto: Ruggero Raimondi Valentin: Franz Grundheber

Conductor: Alain Lombard Hamburgische Staatsoper 28 October 1985 In-house recording

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (New York 1984) Aug 28, 2026

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Tatyana: Ileana Cotrubas Olga: Cleopatra Ciurca Larina: Ariel Bybee Filippyevna: Batyah Godfrey Onegin: Leo Nucci Lenski: Vladimir Popov Prince Gremin: Sergei Koptchak Triquet: Anthony Laciura

Conductor: Neeme Järvi Metropolitan Opera 26 September 1984 In-house recording

Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Vienna 1985) Aug 28, 2026

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Nedda: Ileana Cotrubas Canio: Plácido Domingo Tonio: Matteo Manuguerra Silvio: Wolfgang Schöne Beppe: Heinz Zednik

Conductor: Adam Fischer Wiener Staatsoper 6 June 1985 In-house recording

Bellini: Norma, "In mia man alfin tu sei" (Parma 2026) Mar 11, 2026

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Vasilisa Berzhanskaya Dmitry Korchak

Teatro Regio di Parma February 2026 In-house

Chellini: Alessandro Severo, "Jesu, lär oss här lefva" (Copenhagen 2025) Mar 04, 2026

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Ann Hallenberg

Concerto Copenhagen Conductor: Lars Mortensen Christians Kirke, Copenhagen 15 August 2025 Broadcast

Nicole Car and Étienne Dupuis Extracts Feb 27, 2026

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Massenet: Werther Dupuis—Lyon 2020

Puccini: Manon Lescaut Car—Melbourne 2024

Verdi: Don Carlo Car, Elina Garanca & Dupuis—Vienna 2025

Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera Car & Dupuis—Melbourne 2025

Dvořák: Rusalka Car & Piotr Beczala—Vienna 2026

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (New York 1968) Sep 10, 2025

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Contessa Almaviva: Ilva Ligabue Susanna: Graziella Sciutti Cherubino: Biancamaria Casoni Marcellina: Silvana Zanolli Barbarina: Emilia Ravaglia

Figaro: Rolando Panerai Conte Almaviva: Tito Gobbi Bartolo: Angelo Nosotti

Basilio: Florindo Andreolli Curzio: Mario Carlin Antonio: Giorgio Onesti

Conductor Carlo Maria Giulini Teatro dell'Opera di Roma at the Met 26 June 1968 In-house recording

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (New York 1971) Sep 10, 2025

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Countessa Almaviva: Margaret Price Susanna: Mirella Freni Cherubino: Frederica von Stade Marcellina: Jane Berbié Barbarina: Daniele Perriers Figaro: José Van Dam Conte Almaviva: Gabriel Bacquier Bartolo: Kurt Moll Basilio: Michel Sénéchal Curzio: Jacques Loreau Antonio: Jules Bastin

Conductor: Sir Georg Solti Paris Opéra at the Met 8 September 1976 In-house recording

Janáček: Káťa Kabanová (Chicago 2009) Sep 05, 2025

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Káťa: Karita Mattila Kabanicha: Judith Forst Varvara: Liora Grodnikkaite Boris: Brandon Jovanovich Tichon: Jason Collins Dikoj: Andrew Shore

Conductor: Markus Stenz Lyric Opera of Chicago 22 November 2009 Broadcast