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On this day in 2007 the Metropolitan Opera Debut of tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Almaviva
Opera Philadelphia confirms reports that countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will serve as its next General Director and President, taking the place of the dearly departing David Devan.
Only connect! So sayeth E.M. Forster (via Margaret Wilcox) in Howard’s End.
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On this day in 1926 Puccini‘s opera Turandot premiered in Milan
Chris’s Cache features a pair of performances of Iolanta with Tamara Milashkina and Asmik Grigorian
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Marin Alsop conducts Julia Bullock, J’Nai Bridges, Davóne Tines, and countertenors Siman Chung, Key’mon W. Murrah, and Eric Jurenas in a broadcast from New York
I have a confession and you may need to sit down for it: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita was one of the gateway drugs to my eventual opera fandom.
On this day in 1775 Mozart‘s Il re pastore premiered in Salzburg
Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack appeared at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater this past Thursday with pianist Keun-A Lee in a thoughtful and distinctly personal recital program presented by Vocal Arts DC.
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Happy 89th birthday mezzo-soprano Fiorenza Cossotto
Olga Maslova, SeokJong Baek, Carlo Bosi, Simon Lim, and Valeria Sepe are conducted by Zubin Mehta in a live broadcast from Florence
Born on this day in 1911 baritone Leonard Warren
Speranza Scappucci conducts Angel Blue, Jonathan Tetelman, Emily Pogorelc, and Dekhzod Davronov in a broadcast from New York
On this day in 1967 soprano Elisabeth Grummer made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elsa