On this day in 1954 Britten’s Turn of the Screw premiered in Venice.
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Birthday anniversaries of conductor and composer Vittorio Gui (1885); tenor and priest José Mojica (1896); composer and administrator Rolf Liebermann and composer and conductor Lehman Engel (both 1910); commentator, writer and musicologist Deryck Cooke (1919) and singer/actor Harve Presnell (1933).
Happy 85rd birthday tenor Toni Krämer.
Happy 70th birthday tenor Raúl Giménez.
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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