Nothing to hit but the heights
Born on this day in 1908 actress and singer Ethel Merman.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ILjHSBBSK4
Happy 87th 88th birthday mezzo-soprano Marilyb Horne.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua6VdPKWvW4
Birthday anniversary of soprano Pilar Lorengar (1928).
Happy centenary of the birth of heldentenor Jean Cox.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9qN3URZBAs
On January 15:
On this day in 1958 Samuel Barber‘s Vanessa had its world premiere at the Met.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJm-fWr-3Wk
On this day in 1942 conductor Sir Thomas Beecham made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting a double bill of Phoebus and Pan (Bach’s Cantata Der Streit) and Rinsky-Korsakovs Coq d’Or.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKAd_wS5kK8
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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