On This Day

Appalachian spring

On this day in 1999 the Metropolitan Opera main stage premiere of Floyd‘s Susannah.

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Renee Fleming, Samuel Ramey, and Jerry Hadley star.

Birthday anniversaries of composers Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732), conductor Clemens Krauss (1893),
tenors Franz Völker (1899) and John Mitchinson (1932),
soprano Elisabeth Grümmer (1911) and bass Frederick Guthrie (1924)

Happy 86th birthday bass-baritone Jozsef Dene
Happy 84th birthday soprano Olivia Stapp
Happy 78th birthday soprano Christine Weidinger
Happy 70th birthday tenor Dénes Gulyás
Happy 69th birthday tenor Robert Gambill
Happy 63rd birthday composer Jake Heggie
Happy 57th birthday baritone Matthias Goerne

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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