James Jorden is an American journalist

Journalist

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, music critic, and opera director. He is the founding editor of the popular e-zine-cum-blog parterre box

Parterre box

Parterre box is an ezine devoted to opera, about which it cultivates a campy, critical, strongly opinionated attitude with explicit gay overtones. parterre box was founded by the New Yorker James Jorden in the mid 1990s during a period of under-employment as an opera director...

which covers the topic of opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 from a queer

Queer

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 perspective. Parterre box and Jorden have been featured in numerous notable media publications, including Opera News

Opera News

Opera News is an American classical music magazine. It has been published since 1936 by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, a non-profit organization located at Lincoln Center which was founded to support the Metropolitan Opera of New York City...

magazine, The Advocate

The Advocate

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, and The New York Times

The New York Times

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. From 1999 to 2003, Jorden produced and directed a series of operas at the downtown NYC cabaret La Belle Epoque, featuring singers including Marc Heller, Richard Lewis and Dorothy Bishop

Dorothy Bishop

Dorothy Bishop is a variety entertainer, singer and comedienne from New York City who is best known for her musical parodies of Sarah Palin. She was born in Atlanta, U.S., and graduated from the Yale School of Music....

. After 10 years as a reviewer for Gay City News

Gay City News

Gay City News is an award-winning, free weekly newspaper based in New York City that focuses on local and national issues relating to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. It was founded in 1994 as Lesbian Gay New York, later LGNY, and was sold to Community Media LLC in 2002,...

, Jorden became opera critic for The New York Post in March 2009, succeeding Clive Barnes

Clive Barnes

Clive Alexander Barnes, CBE was a British-born American writer and critic. From 1965 to 1977 he was the dance and theater critic for the New York Times, the most powerful position he had held, since its theater critics' reviews historically have had great influence on the success or failure of...

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