On This Day

Faithful to the letter

On this day in 1920 the first performance of Tchaikovsky‘s Eugene Onegin at the Met

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httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-loEPL71yOM

(Claudia Muzio, Giuseppe de Luca, and Giovanni Martinelli singing in Italian)

On this day in 2011 the first Metropolitan Opera performance of Rossini‘s Le Comte Ory

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4EZZLLA1UU

Birthday anniversaries of soprano Maria Malibran (1808),
bass Fritz Ollendorf (1912),
sopranos Luisa Bosabalian (1936) and Christiane Eda-Pierre (1932),
director and designer Herbert Wernicke (1946)

Happy 87th birthday baritone Benjamin Luxon
Happy 69th birthday soprano Charlotte Margiono

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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