Our heroine

Happy 73rd birthday soprano Diana Soviero.

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Three Metropolitan Opera premieres on this date:

In 1884 Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots (Marcella Sembrich, Italo Campanini and Chrstine Nilsson.)
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In 1913 Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (Adamo Didur, Paul Althouse and Louise Homer.)
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In 2001 Prokofiev’s The Gambler (Vladimir Galouzine, Olga Guryakova and Elena Obraztsova; conducted by Valery Gergiev)
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