Laufe wie eine Ägypterin
On this day in 1928 the American premiere of Richard Strauss‘s Die Ägyptische Helena at the Met. Maria Jeritza was the Helena.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vw960Z83xc
(From a performance in Dresden that year.)
Birthday anniversaries of bass Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (1920), baritone Renato Capecchi (1923), mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff (1928), and countertenor James Bowman (1941)
Happy 85th birthday tenor Eberhard Büchner
Happy 81st birthday mezzo-soprano Nadine Denize
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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