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On this day in 1971, the Metropolitan Opera presented an opening night performance of Don Carlo featuring P______ D______, Martina Arroyo, Robert Merrill, Grace Bumbry, Cesare Siepi, John Macurdy, Lucine Amara and Paul Plishka.
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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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
