Happy 99th birthday to television legend and animal health advocate Betty White.
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On this day in 1960 tenor Jon Vickers made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Canio.
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Birthday anniversaries of composer Wilhelm Kienzl (1857), dramatist and writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860).
Happy 41st birthday to Regisseur Tobias Kratzer.
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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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