On This Day

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On this day in 2005 mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato made her Met debut as Cherubino

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Birthday anniversaries of composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739)
tenor Giuseppe Lugo (1898)
film, stage and opera director and designer Luchino Visconti (1906)
baritone Sigurd Björling (1907)
composer Harold Faberman (1929)
soprano Ruth Falcon (1942)
film and stage director Patrice Chéreau (1944)
and composer and conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946)

Happy 80th birthday soprano Faye Robinson
Happy 69th birthday soprano Marie McLaughlin

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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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