“Comedy is tragedy – plus time”
Happy 89th birthday to funny lady Carol Burnett.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLfSiKI3DsM&start=22
On this day in 2007 the Metropolitan Opera debut of tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Almaviva.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dprmPPVfas
Happy 52nd birthday soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTWsA6LqL4
On this day in 1970 Stephen Sondheim‘s musical Company opened on Broadway.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrRDrz53Q1E
Birthday anniversary of playwright and poet William Shakespeare (baptismal day in 1564), soprano Florence Austral (1894), contralto Marga Höffgen (1921), soprano Wilma Lipp (1925) and composer Conrad Susa (1935).
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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