Clear blue ether
On this day in 2006 tenor Klaus Florian Vogt made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Lohengrin.
“Out of the clear blue ether of the sky there seems to condense a wonderful yet at first hardly perceptible vision; and out of this there gradually emerges, ever more and more clearly, an angel host bearing in its midst the sacred Grail.” — R. Wagner
Born on this day in 1844 impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte.
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On this day in 1960 Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt‘s Fantasticks premiered at Greenwich Village’s Sullivan Street Playhouse.
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Birthday anniversaries of singer and actor Bing Crosby (1903), composer and conductor Alceo Galliera (1910), tenor Léopold Simoneau (1916) and lyricist and performer Betty Comden (1917).
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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