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  Alessandra Marc - High-Performance Soprano - Press
PARTERRE BOX: It's not the most usual idea in the world, to be an opera singer.
PARTERRE BOX: Oh, yes, I was in Rome about a month after that concert -- one of the few events that season for the Rome Opera that actually took place, I think.
PARTERRE BOX: So we're coming to a point where they're not going to be saying: No, we don't want to use you because you're heavy.
www.alessandramarc.com /Updated/review_parterre.htm   (2550 words)

  
  Box
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www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/box.html   (2256 words)

  
 Parterre box - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
parterre box is an ezine devoted to opera, about which it cultivates a campy, critical, strongly opinionated attitude with explict "gay" overtones.
parterre box was founded by the New Yorker James Jorden in the mid 1990s during a period of under-employment as a opera director.
It appeared for a number of years in print form, but now it is solely published on the Web.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parterre_box   (110 words)

  
 East & West Parterre (Rose Garden) - Drumlanrig Castle Gardens Dumfries & Galloway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The East Parterre was part of the great works carried out by the 2nd Duke of Queensberry in the late 17th to early 18th Century.
The layout is based on the 1738 plan to be found in the Castle archive room, though simplified in detail, and the formality of design is characteristic of the period when the Castle was built.
The planting of box, yew, cypress and juniper in an elaborate scroll pattern is in the style of the 18th Century design.
www.buccleuch.com /pages/content.asp?PageID=70   (363 words)

  
 Wimpole Garden
Dominating the North Garden is the Victorian Parterre, which was restored in 1996, in a Union Jack pattern of triangular beds, edged with box and planted with colourful seasonal bedding and evergreen euonymus.
The parterre is divided from the north parkland by a row of topiary yews.
The parterre was re-discovered when the outline of the beds could be seen in the snow one winter.
www.wimpole.org /gardenptr.html   (195 words)

  
 Londonist: Greg: Parterre Box
Parterre Box began its life in 1993 as a photocopied punk-style zine distributed for free in the men's toilets of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Parterre in the 1990s was a enthralling mix of bitchy gossip about frocks, diva worship, borderline-offensive in-jokes, and some of the most in-depth, opinionated, intelligent opera reviews then available anywhere.
Parterre married the old-school queen to the unapologetic, militant queerness of the 1990s.
www.londonist.com /archives/2005/11/greg_parterre_b.php   (663 words)

  
 Carnegie Hall Accessibility Information
Available on the Parterre and Mezzanine levels of Zankel Hall.
For all three halls, assistive listening devices are available free of charge with the deposit of a valid form of ID. For events in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage and Weill Recital Hall, visit the coat-check room on the west side of the Carnegie Hall lobby.
Accessible restrooms are located on the Parquet level in Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, in the Lounge in Weill Recital Hall, and on the Mezzanine and Parterre levels in Zankel Hall.
www.carnegiehall.org /textSite/the_basics/art_accessibility_information.html   (362 words)

  
 Parterre
Date "parterre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791.
"Parterre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time.
"Parterre" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English.
www.websters-online-dictionary.org /pa/parterre.html   (754 words)

  
 Specimen Trees & Topiary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
As the name suggests, the essence of the Parterre is as much the path as the flower beds.
Amenable to clipping, yet quite slow-growing, Box can readily be trained to form the dense dwarf hedging needed to set off the gravel pathways or bedding plants to best effect.
Please bear in mind that a Parterre, to be truly appreciated, must be in an appropriate scale to the adjacent property - or vice versa.
www.oxfordplanters.co.uk /parterre.htm   (406 words)

  
 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
The use of all the parterre boxes was reserved by the lessor, with the privilege of six free admissions to each box at every performance.
Neither stockholders' boxes nor tickets to them were on sale at any ticket office, as all the parterre boxes were reserved by the lease for the stockholders.
These boxes, which were on sale at the ticket office, also had seats for six persons, were uniform in size with the stockholders' boxes, and were otherwise similar.
caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=270&page=245   (997 words)

  
 Location & Directions to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, NY - the Metropolitan Opera
The Main Box Office is located in the North end of the Front Lobby, and is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 am until 8:00 pm and Sundays from noon until 6:00 pm.
After the Box Office closes, all paid reservations for that performance are transferred to the Ticket Taker at the Front Gate in the lobby of the opera house and tickets are no longer available for purchase for that performance.
An usher is available on the Parterre level during the dinner hour for those seated in the Parterre boxes who would like to leave their coats in their boxes.
www.metoperafamily.org /metopera/season/visit/facilities_services.aspx   (1015 words)

  
 Potager Garden at Chateau de Villandry in France
Here is the Garden of Music, a great parterre, in which clipped box hedges and shapes surround massed plantings of herbaceous perennials and low shrubs (irises, asters, lavender, santolina and rosemary).
On the other side of a canal, at the same level, is the Garden of Love, another parterre with box hedges punctuated with clipped yew.
Set to one side to the west of the parterres are a handsome maze and a collection of medicinal herbs.
www.sisley.co.uk /villndry.htm   (590 words)

  
 Panton Plants - Box Hedging & Topiary
As our box plants are supplied bare-rooted they are dispatched during their dormant season (October to March).
Box has been used in formal gardens for two millenia, yet its popularity shows little sign of waning!
The evergreen, dark-leaved, dwarf box plants can be used for topiary purposes, but their main use is as a low-growing, dense, formal hedge, for example in knot gardens and parterres, potager or Italian-style gardens.
www.pantonplants.co.uk   (135 words)

  
 Photos Of Our Work - CALLAWAY GARDENS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Besides the “foundation” plantings, we installed a aromatic rose and perennial garden by the pool; a woodland garden with stone path, and a winter/summer garden using box patterns, strong color perennials for cutting and trees and shrubs with winter interest (colorful stems, berries, shape etc.) This can all be seen from the kitchen window.
What was once a long narrow patch of soil is now delightful walled box and herb garden.
Roses and clematis climb the walls, and blue and purple s\scilla, crocus and hyacinths fill the triangular box parterre by the porch door.
www.callawaygardens-architects.com /work.html   (227 words)

  
 Old Gardens   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In this garden a small box parterre in the style of Le Notre is bounded by formally trained trees and hedging screens of limes in espalier, copperbeech and laid hawthorn.
The foot of the garden is bounded by mature poplars and a new holly hedge.
Four small box parterres, each with a conical clipped bay at its centre, surrounding a central water feature made from a disused font.
www.oldgardens.co.uk /portfolio.htm   (796 words)

  
 Parterre Box's Spoof of The Valley of Dolls
Parterre Box's Spoof of The Valley of Dolls
Ok: Parterre Box's Spoof of The Valley of Dolls
Parterre Box is the opera-ezine that spoofs a lot of the operatic productions at the MET and else where:)
www.hypernews.org /HyperNews/get/music/bartoli/471.html   (170 words)

  
 Parterre box   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
parterre box is an online magazine devoted to opera, aboutwhich it cultivates a campy, critical, strongly opinionated attitude with explict "gay" overtones.
parterre box wasfounded by the New Yorker James Jordan in the mid 1990s during a period of under-employment as a opera director.
It appeared fora number of years in print form, but now it is solely published on the Web.
therfcc.org /parterre-box-299452.html   (98 words)

  
 NYCO's Acis and Galatea: Handel with Care
Parterre Box said Tessier “offered the most consistently stylish singing, well controlled and sweet.” Indeed, he sang with remarkable ardour and beauty, producing a breathtakingly steady, clean line.
More’s the wonder, since his performance was a victory over an embarrassing outfit of tourist shorts, knee socks, flowery shirt, and nerd glasses.
Peter G. Davis in New York Magazine derided the “enormous blue statue of Eros perched on top of a glittering purple mound of earth with a few metallic trees in front of a corrugated cyclorama.” Parterre Box complained, “The skimpy set, a glitzy hillock and some tinfoil trees, recalled a high school homecoming float.”
www.scena.org /columns/anson/010327-PA-acis.html   (902 words)

  
 Levens Hall Topiary Garden in Cumbria
Later, Colonel Grahme's daughter, the Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire, doggedly refused to save money by doing away with the intricate parterre, and insisted on every item of her childhood memories being preserved.
Fanciful shapes of yew, both golden and common, and of box, many billowing and mishapen with age, are scattered about.
Clipping of the yew topiary and box edges then continues until December.
www.sisley.co.uk /levenshl.htm   (400 words)

  
 Welcome to Gay City News, the Newspaper New York deserves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The director and producer James Jorden, well-known in New York opera circles as the editor of the “queer opera ’zine” parterre box (and a regular contributor to Gay City News), devised a staging that was simple and direct.
This Tosca, for example, stabbed the evil Scarpia in the neck as he rested his head on her lap, rather than jabbing him in the gut as Toscas are wont to do.
Parterre seems to have hit on the right tactic for putting on pared-down versions of operas.
www.gaycitynews.com /GCN10/Minimasterpice.html   (1622 words)

  
 chelsea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The centrepiece of the enclosed garden room is an elaborate box parterre incorporating the Chanel motif.
The Cartier/Harpers and Queens garden is entitled Impressions of Highgrove and includes elements of HRH The Prince of Wales' garden at Highgrove which is run on entirely organic principles.
It contains three elements; a simple box parterre interplanted with lavender; a potager garden which includes rare and unusual varieties of vegetables; and a wildlife area.
www.gardenforum.demon.co.uk /chelsea.htm   (770 words)

  
 Cigar Aficionado | People Profile | Joe Volpe
Sitting in a parterre box in a corner of the darkened music hall as the ornate curtain begins to rise is a 57-year-old man with a narrow fl beard, receding hair and a happy yet stern smile.
Two nights later, for the premiere of La Cenerentola--the first time the opera has ever been performed at the Met--the parterre lobby is a sea of fl ties and fl dresses, Met donors and their equally social friends attending a benefit for the Metropolitan Opera Guild.
The general manager's box in the corner is almost fully occupied--seated in it are a couple of major Met donors; Volpe's wife, Jean Anderson Volpe, a former ballet dancer; and the supermodel Christy Turlington, now also a student at New York University.
www.cigaraficionado.com /Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,100,00.html   (5197 words)

  
 Odeo: Unnatural Acts of Opera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
parterre box, the queer opera zine, presents extraordinary opera performances, one act at a time.
What a discovery this channel is! I have long enjoyed parterre as a source of comment and gossip plus occasional downloads.
Then came the web radio casts which were wonderful although all you could do was drop in and out of the cast.
www.odeo.com /channel/6575/view   (819 words)

  
 Spanish Lesson 20
(a box overlooking the orchestra pit), sometimes called a loge in English (from the Italian).
The curtain _____ at eight o’clock on the dot.
The box office (or ticket window) man shows spectators where their seats are.
www.wvup.edu /academics/humanities/Oldaker/spanish_lesson_20.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Advocate, The: Ruffling the Met's feathers - 'Parterre Box,' a gay opera magazine - Brief Article
The circulation is "500, with an incredible pass-along rate," boasts James Jorden, the openly gay New York City-based founder, publisher, editor, and chief contributor.
Jorden's molars weren't dancing back in 1993, when he conceived the idea of Parterre Box.
A frequent standee at performances, Jorden recalls the night he was ejected by a Met security guard who, while muttering "faggot" under his breath, accused him of trying to sell Parterre Box on the premises.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n747/ai_20013303   (697 words)

  
 Learn more about Gardening in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Learn more about Gardening in the online encyclopedia.
Enter a phrase or search word in the box below.
You can enter multiple phrases at a time by putting a comma between each word.(e.g.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /g/ga/gardening.html   (1305 words)

  
 John Labovitz's E-ZINE-LIST ~ Information for parterre box   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This is a list of electronic 'zines around the world, accessible via the Web, FTP, email, and other services.
When the backlog is cleared, then we'll start working on the submission process.
parterre box is about remembering when opera was queer and dangerous and exciting and making it that way again.
x2fwww.e-zine-list.com /ezines/043/2914.shtml   (110 words)

  
 PodcastDirectory | Episode: I puritani (Bellini) Acts 2 and 3 Podcast
parterre box (the queer opera zine) presents "Unnatural Acts of Opera," the parterre podcast.
Featured on the show will be extraordinary performances of opera -- one act at a time.
Your host is La Cieca, cultural doyenne of parterre box.
www.podcastdirectory.com /podshows/1045741   (99 words)

  
 box parterre - Buchsgarten, Buchsparterre (English to German translation glossary) garden design,Botany,Marketing
box parterre - Buchsgarten, Buchsparterre (English to German translation glossary) garden design,Botany,Marketing
The KudoZ network provides a framework for translators and others to assist each other with translations or explanations of terms and short phrases.
at Thorpe Hall in Norfolk she created a modern box parterre and luscious rose and water garden around a moated Jacobean manor house"
www.proz.com /kudoz/1765476   (126 words)

  
 Garden of Château de Brécy in Normandy
Each terrace is a separate garden and a work of art on its own, and the garden ascends over five different levels towards a striking gate decorated with wrought iron renderings of tulips and acanthus leaves.
Punctuated with lichen-covered stone urns, crouching lions, garlands of flowers and pilasters, the garden contains a clipped box parterre de broderie, lawns with box topiary, wrought ironwork and a chapel.
It foreshadows the later classical French gardens with the mansion at the centre.
www.sisley.co.uk /brecy.htm   (133 words)

  
 Parterre box   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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August 1, 2003 -- Among the many materials used to edge walks, parterres, and planting beds in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the most popular was...
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