On This Day

Rose to the occasion

On this day in 1976 mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Octavian

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Birthday anniversary of librettist and playwright Jules Barbier (1825),
composer Franco Alfano (1875),
tenors Franz Klarwein (1914) and Robert Tear (1939),
and director Luca Ronconi (1933)

Happy 85th birthday tenor Horst Laubenthal

Happy 63rd birthday tenor Mark Padmore

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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