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Aida: Birgit Nilsson
Radamès: Carlo Bergonzi
Amneris: Irene Dalis
Amonasro: Mario Sereni
Ramfis: Giorgio Tozzi
King: John Macurdy
Conductor: Georg Solti
Director: Nathaniel Merrill
Designer: Robert O’Hearn
Choreographer: Katherine Dunham [Debut]
On this day in 1961 Frank Loesser‘s musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying opened on Broadway.Happy birthday to parterre box scribe Christopher Corwin!
WindyCityOperaman
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.
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.