On This Day

Old wine in old bottles

On this day in 2012 the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a “new” production of L’Elisir d’amore.

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Baritone day! Born on this day Cornell MacNeil, Ettore Bastianini (both in 1922) and Pablo Elvira (1938).

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Birthday anniversaries of librettist Giovanni Francesco Busenello (1598); composers Tomás López Torregrosa (1868) and Rafael Millán (1893); contralto Karin Branzell (1891); soprano Lina Bruna Rasa (1907); tenor Helmut Melchert (1910) and conductor Ettore Gracis (1915).

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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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