On this day in 1948 Verdi’s Otello was the first opera to be telecast from the Metropolitan Opera.
Birthday anniversaries of composers Jean-Baptise Lully (1632) and Gaetano Donizetti (1797); tenors Erich Zimmermann (1892) and John Brecknock (1937).
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Sung in English, Cantonese and Tagalog, Mila explores the cultural diversity of Hong Kong at New York’s Angel Orensanz Center (Dec. 7) and San Francisco’s Wilsey Center for Opera (Dec. 12). The hour-long opera is the creation of Eli Marshall, Candace Chong and Chu Hei Chan, with music director Neal Goren.
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