On this day in 1967 the Metropolitan Opera’s first Met in the Parks performance in Crocheron Park, Bayside, Queens: Puccini’s La bohème with Anna Moffo, Sandor Konya, Laurel Hurley and Frank Guarrera.
Birthday anniversaries of soprano Angeles Ottein (1895), composer and inventor Harry Partch (1901) and conductor Heinrich Hollreiser (1913).

Happy Pride Month to tenor Ed Lyon.

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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