On This Day

È dolce cosa vivere obliando

On this day in 1914 Zandonai‘s Francesca da Rimini premiered in Turin

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On this day in 1967 the Marc Chagall production of Mozart‘s The Magic Flute was unveiled at the Met. Soprano Lucia Popp made her Met debut as the Queen of the Night.

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Birthday anniversaries of composer Luigi Boccherini (1743),
soprano Adelina Patti (1843),
baritone (and Brigitte’s father) Willi Domgraf-Fassbänder (1897),
and director and designer Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932)

Happy 85th birthday tenor Vladimir Atlantov
Happy 81st birthday mezzo-soprano Stefania Toczyska

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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