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Happy 96th birthday to actress and treasure Dame Angela Lansbury.
Happy 84th birthday actress Linda Lavin.
The fifth annual edition of Trove Thursday’s “Handel for my Birthday” actually falls on the very day this year, and there are few broadcasts I love more than the 1972 BBC Tamerlano starring the greatest Janet Baker along with Norma Burrowes, Patricia Kern, Maureen Lehane and Alexander Young.
Born on this day in 1893 actress Lillian Gish.
Born on this day in 1932 actress, dancer and singer Liliane Montevecchi.
Christine Goerke and Yusif Eyvazov star in a live broadcast from the Met.
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Happy 53rd birthday to actress, comedian and singer Jane Krakowski.
Born on this day composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813) and soprano Leyla Gencer (1924).
Asmik Grigorian as Jenufa in her Covent Garden debut and Karita Mattila as the Kostelnicka lead a star cast with conductor Henrik Nánási.
On this day in 1947 High Button Shoes opened at the Century Theatre, to run 727 performances.
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Born on this day in 1880 singer and vaudevillian Nora Bayes.
Turandot finally arrives on Trove Thursday, but it’s the setting by Ferruccio Busoni which predates by a decade the one by that other Italian guy, and it’s paired today with Arlecchino, the composer’s other commedia dell’arte-influenced short opera.
On this day in 1965 mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Eboli.
Born on this day in 1906 actress Janet Gaynor.
Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia. The original 1869 version runs two-and-a-quarter hours with no intermission.
Hie thee hither to the Lyric Opera House!
