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.
On this day in 1971 the musical The Grass Harp opened at the Martin Beck Theater, to run seven performances.
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On this day in 1611 Shakespeare’s romance The Tempest was presented by the King’s Men before James I at Whitehall Palace.
On this day in 1541 Michelangelo Buonarroti finished painting The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.
On this day in 1940 Cole Porter‘s musical Panama Hattie opened at the 46th Street Theatre, to run 501 performances.
On this day in 1929, the Black Tuesday stock market crash triggered the Great Depression.
On this day in 1962 the revue Beyond the Fringe opened at the John Golden Theater, to run 673 performances.
On this day in 1931 Eugene O’Neill‘s Mourning Becomes Electra premiered at the Guild Theatre in New York City.
On this day in 1415 Henry V‘s forces defeated the larger French army at the Battle of Agincourt.
On this day in 1882 Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
On this day in 1967 the musical Henry, Sweet Henry opened at the Palace Theater for 80 performances.
On this day in 1883 the Metropolitan Opera House opened its inaugural season with Gounod’s Faust.
On this day in 1858 Jacques Offenbach‘s opera Orphée aux Enfers premiered in Paris.
On this day in 1973 the Sydney Opera House opened.
Born on this day in 1945, “US-amerikanische Drag Queen und Euro-Disco-Sänger” Divine.
On this day in 1966 The Apple Tree opened at the Shubert Theater, starring Barbara Harris, won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Happy birthday to music critic Zachary Woolfe.
Happy 90th birthday actress Angela Lansbury.
On this day in 1951 I Love Lucy debuted on CBS.
On this day in 1930 Ethel Merman made her Broadway debut in Girl Crazy.
On this day in 54 AD Nero succeeded Claudius as Roman Emperor.
On this day in 539 BC the army of Cyrus the Great of Persia took Babylon.
On this day in 1958 the musical Goldilocks opened at the Lunt Fontanne Theater, to run 161 performances.
Born on this day in 1813 composer Giuseppe Verdi.
On this day in 1987, Waltraud Meier made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Fricka in a new production of Das Rheingold.
