On this day in 1944 the Aaron Copland/Martha Graham ballet Appalachian Spring had its premiere in Washington DC
Birthday anniversaries of conductor Antonino Votto (1896) and soprano Käthe Heidersbach (1897)
Happy 78th birthday countertenor and conductor René Jacobs
Happy 69th birthday baritone François Le Roux
Two other Broadway Premieres:
In 1940, Cole Porter‘s Panama Hattie
In 1949, Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson‘s Lost in the Stars
Photo: Joan Marcus
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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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
