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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On this day in 1875 Bizet‘s Carmen has its disastrous premiere at the Opéra Comique in Paris
On this day in 1989 Ken Ludwig‘s play Lend Me A Tenor opened on Broadway
On this day in 1836 Meyerbeer‘s Les Huguenots premiered in Paris
On this day in 1910 prima ballerina Anna Pavlova made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Coppélia (on a double bill with Werther!)
On this day in 1948 tenor Giuseppe di Stefano made his Metropolitan Opera debut at the Duke of Mantua
On this day in 1980 baritone Leo Nucci made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Renato
Born on this day in 1907 librettist and poet W. H. Auden
On this day the Metropolitan Opera premiered triple bill of Satie‘s Parade, and Poulenc‘s Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Ravel‘s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges
On this day in 1914 Zandonai‘s Francesca da Rimini premiered in Turin
On this day in 1904 Puccini’s Madama Butterfly had its disastrous premiere in Milan
Happy 55th birthday mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato
Born on this day in 1923 director and designer Franco Zeffirelli
Happy 97th birthday soprano Leontyne Price
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