Barging in
On this day in 1976 soprano Hildegard Behrens made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Giorgetta!
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyDv9KXDqLk
Much later as Mozart’s Elettra
Neil Shicoff made his debut as Rinuccio.
Birthday anniversaries of soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889)
mezzo-sopranos Bruna Castagna (1905)
and Oralia Dominguez (1925)
Happy 92nd birthday baritone Heinz Horst Blankenburg
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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Topics: On This Day
