Questo e Quello
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On this day in 1933 Arabella premiered in Dresden.
On this day in 1862 Gustave Flaubert completed Salammbô.
“Why did they concur? I was shocked to see children in the audience.”
In an unprecedented move, the Bayreuth Festival has named conductor Christian Thielemann official “Music Director.”
Harry Lawrence Freeman’s Voodoo, begun sometime before 1914, was completed and first heard on radio in May, 1928, then staged on Broadway later that year—seven years before Porgy and Bess, please note.
This week I am sending you something a bit more bucolic than usual: a traversal of the Golden Age of the Canadian Parlor Song by Canadian diva Mary Lou Fallis.
On this day in 1613 Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre burned down.
A first hint of what Anna Netrebko‘s latest Verdi role will sound like.
“La couleur dramatique l’emporte irrésistiblement.”
On this day in 1841 the Théâtre de l’Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premiered the ballet Giselle.
Well done all of you for guessing almost all the correct identities of the mysterious Ortruden.
On this day in 1966 Dark Shadows premiered on ABC-TV.
On this day the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage.
On this day in 1906, architect Stanford White was shot dead atop Madison Square Garden by Harry Thaw, jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit, White’s former mistress.
On this day in 1374 a sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causeed people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapsed from exhaustion.
On this day in 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the “Type-Writer.”
Three blocks from the opera house is a terrible time to realize there was homework.
When John Adams’ A Flowering Tree had its world premiere in Vienna in 2006, critical reaction from the Austrian and German press was mixed-to-negative.
n this day in 1985 Dallas actress Victoria Principal (“35”) wedded plastic surgeon Harry Glassman (43).
On this day in 1791, the fleeing French King Louis XVI and his family were captured at Varennes-en-Argonne.
On this day in 1893 Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts.
On this day in 1825 Gioacchino Rossini‘s Il viaggio a Reims premiered.
On this day in 1821 Der_Freischütz premiered at the Schauspielhaus Berlin.
Tell us: What’s your favorite Verdi performance?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
