“Even you, Mrs. Lovett, even I!”
On this day in 1979 Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler‘s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opens at the Uris Theatre, to run 557 performances.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90vBH847AD4
Happy 97th birthday soprano Lucine Amara.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VikbaE9WUo
Born on this day in 1896 conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwyzjbZ8ZnA
WindyCityOperaman
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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