Divine intervention
Born 101 years ago.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsBt7dIdAB4
On this day in 1840 Donizetti‘s La favorite premiered in Paris
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xFqLZFPf3M
On this day in 1877 Camille Saint-Saens’s opera Samson et Dalila premiered in Weimar
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdpmTuxzs3Q
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)
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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