Regal Marcella Sembrich, star of the Met’s first Huguenots.
Three Metropolitan Opera premieres on this date: Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots in 1884, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov in 1913 and Prokofiev’s The Gambler in 2001. Birthday greetings to soprano Diana Soviero!
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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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
