Happy 89th birthday mezzo-soprano Fiorenza Cossotto
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaQBJIpDxg
On this day in 1926 Wozzeck composed by Manfred Gurlitt premiered in Bremen (four months after Alban Berg‘s)
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNOpWtAzII
Birthday anniversaries of playwright and novelist Henry Fielding (1707),
composer Juan Vert (1890),
contralto Kathleen Ferrier (1912),
and bass-baritone Franz Mazura (1924)
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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