It’s too darn cold
On this day in 1948 Cole Porter‘s Kiss Me Kate opened on Broadway
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E2GM5bB3IY
Happy 71st birthday soprano June Anderson
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e5sGY5aWVE
On this day in 1954 the Harold Arlen-Truman Capote musical House of Flowers opened on Broadway
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu91wObYGBs
Birthday anniversaries of composer Paul Bowles (1910), tenor Gösta Winbergh (1943), and stage director Graham Vick (1953)
On this day in 1927 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari and Giovacchino Forzano’s opera Sly premiered at La Scala
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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