On This Day

Beauty is the hardest gift to shelter

Born on this day in 1910 composer Samuel Barber

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…also born on this day in 1930 conductor Thomas Schippers

Operatic premieres:  Verdi’s Nabucco premiered in Milan (1842), his Ernani in Venice (1844), Otto Nicolai’s Die lustige Weiber von Windsor in Berlin (1849) and Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet in Paris (1868).

Birthday anniversaries of librettist and composer Modest Mussorgsky (1839),
basses Nicola Zaccaria (1923) and Franz Crass (1928),
and tenor Sergej Larin (1956)

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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