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 1882 Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
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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.
On this day in 1897 Gustav Mahler became director of the Wiener Hofoper.
On this day in 1982 the musical Cats opened at the Winter Garden Theater, to run 7,485 performances.
On this day in 1889 the Moulin Rouge opened in Paris.
On this day in 1970 the musical Coco closed at the Mark Hellinger Theater after 333 performances.
Happy 77th birthday critic and interviewer Rex Reed.
On this day in 1907 the Plaza Hotel opened.
On this day in 1908 Maurice Maeterlinck‘s L’Oiseau bleu premiered at Constantin Stanislavski‘s Moscow Art Theatre.
Oh this day in 1954 A Star is Born starring Judy Garland and James Mason premiered at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood.
