On this day in 1948 Verdi‘s Otello was the first opera to be telecast from the Metropolitan Opera.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bEwti_TWfk
Can’t find a kinescope, but this broadcast came a few days after
Happy 82nd birthday baritone Philippe Huttenlocher
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNsi9JLuH7s
Happy 78th birthday soprano Carole Farley
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkW0pioD_xk
Birthday anniversaries of composers Jean-Baptise Lully (1632) and Gaetano Donizetti (1797), and tenors Erich Zimmermann (1892) and John Brecknock (1937)
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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