Things that are just a little more glamorous
Happy 82nd birthday to designer Bob Mackie.
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On this day in 1920 the first performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin was presented at the Met (Claudia Muzio, Giuseppe de Luca and Giovanni Martinelli singing in Italian.)
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-loEPL71yOM
On this day in 2011 the first Metropolitan Opera performance of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4EZZLLA1UU
Birthday anniversaries of soprano Maria Malibran (1808), bass Fritz Ollendorf (1912), sopranos Luisa Bosabalian (1936) and Christiane Eda-Pierre (1932), director and designer Herbert Wernicke (1946).
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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