Happy 52nd birthday tenor Piotr Beczala! On this day in 1910 Engelbert Humperdinck’s “other” opera Königskinder premiered at the Met.On this day in 1944 the Leonard Bernstein-Betty Comden-Adolph Green musical On the Town premiered on Broadway.Happy birthday to tenor and arts administrator Jonathan Blalock!
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Happy 52nd birthday tenor Piotr Beczala!
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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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