“I love Russian composers!”
Born on this day in 1919 pianist and entertainer Liberace.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M05jf2Rb2HM
Happy 72nd birthday bass Ferruccio Furlanetto.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3TS8RglWHE
On this day in 1946 Irving Berlin‘s Annie Get Your Gun opened on Broadway.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhOTMf84gFo
Birthday anniversaries of tenors Richard Tauber (1891) and Jan Kiepura (1902); conductors Felix Prohaska (1912) and Otmar Suitner (1922).
Happy birthday to parterre box mainstay Dawn Fatale aka Richard Lynn.
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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