Happy 93rd birthday to soprano Leontyne Price.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch4CZrGw5fI
Premieres of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffman in Paris (1881) and Rimski-Korsakov’s Snyegurochka in St Petersburg (1882).
Birthday anniversaries of playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898), mezzo-soprano Gianna Pederzini (1900), soprano Maria Cebotari (1910), conductor Henry Krips (1912) and bass Cesare Siepi (1923).
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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