On This Day

Bonney blue eyes

Happy 68th birthday soprano Barbara Bonney

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Happy 66th birthday soprano Aprile Millo

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On this day in 1883 Leo Delibes‘s Lakme premiered in Paris

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Birthday anniversaries of bass Salvatore Baccaloni (1900)
and conductor Jean Fournet (1913)

Happy 75th birthday soprano Eiddwen Harrhy

On this day in 1960 the Charles Strouse-Lee Adams musical Bye Bye Birdie opened on Broadway

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZldWwNZMmc

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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