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 1951 I Love Lucy debuted on CBS.
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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.
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 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.
On this day in 1945 Mildred Price starring Joan Crawford premiered at New York City’s Strand Theater.
Born on this day in 1898 composer Vincent Youmans
On this day in 1835 Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor premiered in Naples.
Born on this day in 1929 newscaster Barbara Walters.
On this day in 1930 Noel Coward‘s play Private Lives premiered in London.
Born on this day in 480 BC playwright Euripides.
On this day in 1964 Fiddler on the Roof opened at the Imperial Theater in New York City, to run for 3,242 performances.
On this day in 1948 Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle premiered on NBC.
On this day in 1833 Charles Darwin rode a horse to Buenos Aires.
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