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On this day in 1497 Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
On this day in 1497 Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE9yFAuYY9o&start=288
Born on this day in 1770 composer Ludwig van Beethoven
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHqmIbo8sdI
Born on this day in 1775 composer Adrien Boieldieu (the father, not the son)
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBaf2DWCqyc
Born on this day in 1877 conductor Artur Bodanzky
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNNw5xlgjZ8
Born on this day in 1882 composer Zoltán Kodály
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OVlCCzq2nM
Born on this day in 1899 composer, playwright and actor Noel Coward
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcBr3rosvNQ
Born on this day in 1926 tenor James McCracken
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIIzL2OSQOM
Born on this day in 1929 tenor Donald Grobe
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWElkn7g684
Happy 82nd birthday composer Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQib7IEmDtA
Born on this day in 1939 tenor Philip Langridge
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jcvfH_DyHQ
WindyCityOperaman
Dan Soda (Windy City Operaman) is a Chicago native whose first visit to opera was at age 17 and Massenet’s Werther with Troyanos and Kraus. Nothing was ever the same. Opera and concert performances, recordings and video are an obsession. He prepares Parterre Box’s daily birthday and anniversary tributes. He also enjoys concerts, live theater and movies.
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