On this day in 1840 Donizetti‘s La favorite premiered in Paris

On this day in 1877 Camille Saint-Saens’s opera Samson et Dalila premiered in Weimar

Birthday anniversaries of tenor and teacher Paul Althouse and conductors Peter Herman Adler and John Barbirolli (all born 1899), and mezzo-soprano Irina Arkhipova (1925)

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parterre box is launching a new themed regular feature curated by our readers and opera fans across the world! We are asking for your favorite clips, recordings, and anecdotes to get people chatting, listening, and thinking.

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