On this day in 2015 Renée Fleming made her Broadway debut in Joe DiPietro‘s comedy Living on Love, which opened at the Longacre Theatre, to run 16 performances. On this day in 1967 soprano Elisabeth Grümmer made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elsa.
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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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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.
