On this day in 1951 Benjamin Britten‘s Billy Budd premiered in London
Broadway openings on this day:
In 1956 Leonard Bernstein‘s Candide
In 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s Flower Drum Song
In 1968 Burt Bacharach-Hal David‘s Promises Promises
Birthday anniversaries of composers Ernest Reyer (1823)
and Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych
and mezzo-soprano Heather Begg (1932)
Happy 63rd birthday soprano Leontina Vaduva
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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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
