Meme chanson, meme refrain
La Cieca is indebted to those Wellsungs for this idea:Â what’s your birth opera? Or, in other words, which opera (and cast, if applicable) was the Met performing on the day you were born? (You get this information, of course, from the Met Archives Database.)
Unfortunately, La Cieca, being a Leo, was born outside the regular Met season. So, for the purposes of this meme, she’ll look to the the Salzburg Festival for her birth opera:
Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni: Cesare Siepi; Donna Anna: Elisabeth Grümmer; Don Ottavio: Anton Dermota; Donna Elvira: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; Leoporello: Otto Edelmann; Il Commendatore: Dezsö Ernster; Masetto: Walter Berry; Zerlina: Erna Berger. Wilhelm Furtwängler; Wiener Philharmoniker.)
 What’s your birth opera?
“158. On February 7, 2008 at 10:21 am, Sanford ejaculated:”
That is too funny; is there a spycam in my house? And followiing in La Cieca’s footsteps, I transferred my personal blog to wordpress.
http://sschimel.wordpress.com/
Detroit, Michigan
Masonic Temple
June 1, 1984
DIE ENTFÃœHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL {37}
Constanze……………Gail Robinson
Belmonte…………….David Rendall
Blonde………………Judith Blegen
Pedrillo…………….Philip Creech
Osmin……………….Ara Berberian
Selim……………….James Courtney
Conductor……………James Levine
I’m probably more of a Blonde then Constanze…
I was born between operas… Traviata and Don Giovanni. Two of my faves. Milnes was singing Germont, and Battle sang Zerlina. Good times!
Interesting new layout La Cieca, BTW. It’s been a while since I’ve visited…
Sanford – Thanks! I will absolutely embrace the conception gala in lieu of the birth opera!
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February 9, 1959
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA {72}
Giuseppe Verdi–Antonio Somma
Amelia………………Antonietta Stella
Riccardo…………….Jan Peerce
Renato………………Mario Sereni
Ulrica………………Belén Amparan
Oscar……………….Mattiwilda Dobbs
Samuel………………Nicola Moscona
Tom…………………Norman Scott
Silvano……………..Calvin Marsh
Judge……………….William Olvis
Servant……………..Robert Nagy
Conductor……………Thomas Schippers
s my birthday opera
Well, I was born in September back in the days when the season didn’t start till November. But on the day I turned two months old, the Met opened with one hell of a birthday present:
Peter Brook‘s house debut directing a nineteenth-century Faust designed by Rolf Gérard, with Jussi Björling, Victoria de los Angeles, Robert Merrill and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni debuting as Méphistophélès.
And for the approximate date of my conception, La Gioconda with Milanov, Del Monaco, Barbieri, Warren, Nicola Moscona and Jean Madeira as the host of this blog, conducted by Fausto Cleva.
Jan.21, 1936 Traviata at the Met with Edith Mason,Nino Martini, and John Charles Thomas…BUT knowing me, I should have been born during an Elektra….
Sugarmezzo, not only do I wish we could do accents (and your French accent was tres bon, mon cheri), I wish we could do italics, bold, and underscored.