On This Day

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Born on this day in 1940 designer Bob Mackie.

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Metropolitan Opera Premieres:

On this day in 1920 the first performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Met (Claudia Muzio, Giuseppe de Luca and Giovanni Martinelli singing in Italian).

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On this day in 2011 the first Metropolitan Opera performance of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory.

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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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