On This Day

Out of her dreams

Happy 88th birthday actress and singer Shirley Jones.

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On this day in 1999 the Metropolitan Opera offered the main stage premiere of of Floyd’s Susannah featuring Renée Fleming, Samuel Ramey and Jerry Hadley.

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Birthday anniversaries of composers Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732), conductor Clemens Krauss (1893), tenors Franz Völker (1899) and John Mitchinson (1932), soprano Elisabeth Grümmer (1911) and bass Frederick Guthrie (1924).

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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