See the pretty girl in that mirror there
On this day in 1962 soprano Regine Crespin made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Marschallin.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOEUsfQw8uA
Mezzo Hertha Töpper debuts as Octavian and Lotte Lehmann is stage director.
Happy 79th birthday mezzo-soprano Agnes Baltsa
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKL1cqG8R4o
Birthday anniversary of playwright, librettist, film and stage director Giovacchino Forzano (1884)
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rswPfwFTfQ
and conductor David Lloyd-Jones (1934)
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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