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On this day in 1809 the second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (designed by Robert Smirke) opened with a performance of Macbeth followed by a musical entertainment called The Quaker.
On this day in 1809 the second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (designed by Robert Smirke) opened with a performance of Macbeth followed by a musical entertainment called The Quaker.
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Born on this day in 1852 poet and librettist Francis Burdett Money-Coutts
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rbpSMD5XC8
Born on this day in 1860 composer Alberto Franchetti
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7URjY9qzmgM
Born on this day in 1893 composer Arthur Benjamin, none of whose operas are excerpted on YouTube
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bllvYME3QtI
Born on this day in 1897 composer Pablo Sorozábal
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ULkmrh45R4
Born on this day in 1910 composer Josef Tal
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wajUG_wlx0U
Born on this day in 1916 tenor József Simándy
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUn6GiwJ4mA
Born on this day in 1932 mezzo-soprano Maureen Lehane
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK8ajWa-ivc
Happy 82nd birthday bass-baritone Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeMWf5CzVM
Happy 79th birthday mezzo-soprano Ruth Hesse
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_mB_HjiK2M
Happy 44th birthday soprano Anna Netrebko
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teQlryV8mCg
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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