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On this day in 1975, Liza Minnelli jumped into the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago, the start of a five-week stint filling in for Gwen Verdon, who was recovering from throat surgery.
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Born on this day in 1910 actress Sylvia Sidney.
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Born on this day in 1886 actress and producer Billie Burke.
Born on this day in 1911 actress Lucille Ball.
FInal day of the opening Ring of the 2022 Bayreuth season.
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Born on this day in 1911 actor Robert Taylor.
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Born on this day in 1910 actress Anita Page.
The July-August timeframe in the San Francisco Bay Area is always exciting time in terms of opera.
Born on this day in 1904 actress Dolores del Rio.
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Having had many memorable encounters with these characters before, I had been looking forward to encountering them again in an ambitious contemporary Oresteia, but I left the Armory feeling that writer-director Robert Icke just didn’t get it.
Born on this day in 1905 actress Myrna Loy.
The second say of Der Ring des Nibelungen, live from the Bayreuth Festival.
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Beverly Sills and Renée Fleming (not pictured) rightly crown the list of most-read parterre box articles for August 2022.
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Born on this day in 1936 fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.
A live broadcast as the Bayreuth Festival launches a new Ring cycle.
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