Happy 72nd birthday tenor Neil Shicoff.
Birthday anniversaries of composers Edward Elgar (1857) and Marvin Hamlisch (1944); conductor Felix Weingartner (1863); baritone Josef Metternich (1915) and soprano Inga Nielsen (1946).Because it’s June
On this day in 1969 Renata Tebaldi and Franco Corelli opened the Met’s June Festival in Tosca.
Here we find the starry pair a couple of months earlier in Adriana Lecouvreur.
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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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