On this day in 1975 Joan Sutherland sang La traviata during the Metropolitan Opera’s tour in Tokyo.
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Happy 84th birthday tenor Giacomo Aragall.
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Birthday anniversaries of writer Thomas Mann (1875), soprano Grete Stückgold (1895), mezzo-soprano/soprano Gloria Lane (1925) and conductor Klaus Tennstedt (1926).
Happy 84th to baritone Alberto Rinaldi.
Happy 81st birthday countertenor and conductor Paul Esswood.
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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