On this day in 2010, the Metropolitan Opera opened it season with Das Rheingold, the first installment in the catastrophic Robert Lepage production of the Ring.
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Happy 65th birthday opera director Peter Sellars.
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Birthday anniversaries of composers Cyril Scott (1879) and Vincent Youmans (1898);
and musicologist Philip Gossett (1941).
Happy 82nd birthday soprano Josephine Barstow.
Happy 71st birthday tenor Peter Dvorsky.
Happy 70th birthday tenor Chris Merritt.
Photo: Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera
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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