On This Day

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On this day in 1991 soprano Deborah Voigt made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Amelia

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Birthday anniversaries of tenors Dinu Badescu (1904) and Reiner Goldberg (1939), playwright Arthur Miller (1915), and baritone Rolando Panerai (1924)

Three Broadway openings:

Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick‘s Tenderloin (1960)
Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz‘s Jennie with Mary Martin (1963)
Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner‘s On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965)

Photo: Michael Maloney

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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