Questo e Quello

Blue cheese

On this day in 1908 Maurice Maeterlinck‘s L’Oiseau bleu premiered at Constantin Stanislavski‘s Moscow Art Theatre.

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On this day in 1908 Maurice Maeterlinck‘s L’Oiseau bleu premiered at Constantin Stanislavski‘s Moscow Art Theatre.  

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu5P6fbr30

Born on this day in 1852 composer Charles Villiers Stanford
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsL4wYEdhyw

Born on this day in 1919 soprano Patricia Neway
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIB9cGlLkm0

Born on this day in 1923 tenor Giuseppe Campora
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3eXU1rtFmw

Born on this day in 1924 writer Truman Capote
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJkb4xf5Zog

Happy 63rd birthday baritone Andrew Shore
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEbwM-rqynM

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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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