Happy 86th birthday mezzo-soprano Ruth Hesse.
“I am a difficult person to lead”
Born on this day in 1905 actress Greta Garbo.
Happy 51st birthday soprano Anna Netrebko.Birthday anniversaries of poet and librettist Francis Burdett Money-Coutts (1852); composers Alberto Franchetti (1860), Arthur Benjamin (1893), Pablo Sorozábal (1897) and Josef Tal (1910); tenor József Simándy (1916); mezzo-soprano Maureen Lehane (1932) and bass-baritone Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov (1933).
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Pick a little, talk a little
Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
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