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On This Day, Questo e Quello

Way down upon the Swan Knight river

On this day in 1850 Wagner's Lohengrin premiered at the Staatskapelle Weimar.

By WindyCityOperaman on August 28, 2019 at 10:19 AM

On this day in 1850 Wagner’s Lohengrin premiered at the Staatskapelle Weimar.

And practically everyone you ever heard of has a birthday today, including bass Paul Plishka, who is 79.

Birthday anniversaries of composer Umberto Giordano (1867); conductors Karl Böhm (1894), Berislav Klobucar (1924) and István Kertész (1929); soprano Irene Jessner (1901); tenor Richard Tucker (1913); baritone Nicolae Herlea (1927); bass-baritone John Shirley-Quirk, soprano Cristina Deutekom and opera director Tito Capobianco (all in 1931) and mezzo-soprano Lucia Valentini-Terrani (1948)

Happy 72nd birthday conductor Gustav Kuhn.

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