In 1956 Leonard Bernstein‘s CandideIn 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum SongIn 1968 Burt Bacharach–Hal David‘s Promises PromisesWorld AIDS Day 2020.
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Happy 75th birthday to songstress, actress and producer Bette Midler.
On this day in 1951 Benjamin Britten‘s Billy Budd premiered in London.Broadway openings on this day:
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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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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.
