L’amor della diva!
On this day in 1971 Grace Bumbry made her role debut as Tosca as part of the Metropolitan Opera Summer Festival.
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Happy 58th birthday soprano Sandrine Piau.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-aY5kpaIas
Birthday anniversaries of composer Ralph Benatzky (1884) and poet and composer Federico García Lorca (1898).
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGMVSKmUAGE
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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