On This Day

Meine Sängerin, auf!

Born on this day in 1937 soprano/mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry.

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She made her historic debut at Bayreuth 1961 as Venus, Met debut 1965 as Eboli, and her Met farewell at the James Levine gala in 1996.

Birthday anniversaries of composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710)
conductor Percy Pitt (1869)
and conductor/impresario Gaetano Merola (1881).

Happy 74th birthday soprano Margaret Marshall
Happy 70th birthday tenor Peter Seiffert

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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