On This Day

Love for music

Happy 96th birthday soprano Leontyne Price.

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Premieres of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffman in Paris (1881), Rimski-Korsakov’s Snegurochka in St Petersburg (1882) and Howard Hanson’s Merry Mount in New York City (1934).

Birthday anniversaries of playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898), mezzo-soprano Gianna Pederzini (1900), soprano Maria Cebotari (1910), conductor Henry Krips (1912) and bass Cesare Siepi (1923).

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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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