She created the role of Lavinia in Levy‘s Mourning Becomes Electra for her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1967 and her farewell was as the Marschallin in 1985.
Birthday anniversaries of bass-baritone Karl Dönch (1915)
basses Giorgio Tozzi (1923) and Yevgeny Nesterenko (1938)
composer Benjamin Lees (1924)
and director Elijah Moshinsky (1946).
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.
