On this night in 1951 Giancarlo Menotti‘s Amahl and the Night Visitors premiered on television
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrJG0jsm_9c
Born on this day in 1824 composer Peter Cornelius (with music for the holiday)
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDG338cxF08
Born on this day poet George Crabbe (1754)
dramatist and librettist Eugène Scribe (1791)
sopranos Lucrezia Bori (1887)
and Teresa Stich-Randall (1927)
dancer and choreographer Robert Joffrey (1930)
baritone Richard Cowan (1957)
and conductor Arnold Ostman (1939)
Happy 73rd birthday composer Libby Larsen
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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