Short-lived Metropolitan Opera careers; on this day Metropolitan opera debuts of:
soprano Radmila Bakocevic as Cio Cio San (1968) (8 performances)
soprano Arlene Saunders as Eva (3 performances, only role)
tenor Jean Cox as Walther (8 performances, only role)
and Gunther Leib as Beckmesser in Der Meistersinger (1976) (6 performances, only role)

Birthday anniversaries of writer and librettist Hans Christian Andersen (1805),
novelist Emile Zola (1840),
baritone George Cehanovsky and bass-baritone Rudolf Bockelmann (both in 1892),
conductor Kurt Herbert Adler (1905),
and tenors Alain Vanzo and Fritz Uhl (both in 1928)

Happy 96th birthday soprano April Cantelo
Happy 94th birthday mezzo-soprano Barbro Ericson

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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