In 1953 the Wright-Forrest-Borodin musical Kismet
In 1960 Lerner and Loewe‘s Camelot
Born on this day in 1921 soprano Phyllis Curtin in music for the holidays
Birthday anniversaries of composer Nino Rota (1911) and tenors Charles Craig (1920) and William McAlpine (1922)
Happy 79th birthday mezzo-soprano Jeanne Piland
Happy 78th birthday mezzo-soprano Marjana Lipovsek
On this day in 1954 William Walton‘s Troilus and Cressida premiered in London
On this day in 1993 the first issue of parterre box was published
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