Soprano Gundula Janowitz, bass Karl Ridderbusch, and mezzo Gwendolyn Killebrew all making their Met debuts as Sieglinde, Hunding, and Waltraute

Birthday anniversaries of writer and philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet (better known as Voltaire) (1694) and conductor James dePriest (1936)

On this day in 1901 Richard Strauss’s Feuersnot premiered in Dresden

Happy 82nd birthday mezzo-soprano Julia Hamari
Happy 78th birthday soprano Anne-Marie Rodde
Happy 59th birthday singer Bjork

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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