Nine performances and that was all.
Birthday anniversaries of baritone Josef Herrmann (1903) and tenor Giovanni Malipiero (1906)
Happy 81st birthday conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Ein Laut so klagevoll
On this day in 1967 soprano Elisabeth Grummer made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elsa
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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