Music! Mystery!
Broadway premieres on this day:
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In 1953 the Wright-Forrest-Borodin musical Kismet
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In 1960 Lerner and Loewe‘s Camelot
Born on this day in 1921 soprano Phyllis Curtin in music for the holidays
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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
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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Topics: On This Day
