Welcome to the public domain the 1927 musical Show Boat.
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The call of love
On this day in 1966 Renata Scotto entered the new year with a performance of Madama Butterfly at the Met.
Birthday anniversaries of librettist Ludovic Halévy (1834), writer John Luther Long (1861), librettist E M Forster (1879), conductor Artur Rodzinski (1892), soprano Marta Fuchs (1898), conductor Giuseppe Patanè (1932) and bass Laszlo Polgar (1947).
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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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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.