On this day in 1977 tenor Guy Chauvet made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Samson. Short-lived Metropolitan Opera careers – on this day Metropolitan opera debuts of:
Soprano Radmila Bakocevic as Cio Cio San (1968) (8 performances)
Soprano Arlene Saunders as Eva (3 performances, only role)
Tenor Jean Cox as Walther (8 performances, only role)
Gunther Leib as Beckmesser in Der Meistersinger (1976) (6 performances, only role)
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.
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.
