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On this day in 1964 Metropolitan Opera’s Opening Night was the then-new Nathaniel Merrill production of Aida.
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Birgit Nilsson, Carlo Bergonzi, Irene Dalis, Mario Sereni and Katherine Dunham‘s choreography.
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On this day in 1961 Frank Loesser‘s musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying opens on Broadway with Robert Morse, Charles Nelson Reilly and Rudy Vallee.
Birthday anniversaries of composers Heinrich Schütz (1585) and José Serrano (1873), composer and conductor Alexander Zemlinsky (1871), soprano Ellen Faull (1918), tenor Enrico di Giuseppe (1932), and composer Kaija Saariaho (1952)
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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