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Born on this day in 1916 baritone Giuseppe Taddei
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Bergamo hosts an annual Donizetti festival, Salzburg presents a Mozart-woche every January, and of course there is Bayreuth for Wagner. But Handel gets two festivals every spring, and this year I was finally able to attend one of them.
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Recent Richard Tucker Award winner Clay Hilley and Samuel Hasselhorn perform the tenor-baritone version of Mahler‘s song cycle in a performance recorded earlier this month in Frankfurt conducted by Alain Altinonglu
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Final opera of the season. Little-known opera. A revival. So, you can probably skip it, right?
On this day in 1967 the Metropolitan Opera’s first Met in the Parks performance in Crocheron Park, Bayside, Queens
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A performance from the Dutch National Opera featuring Barno Ismatullaeva, Ismael Jordi, and Angela Brower conducted by Enrique Mazzola recorded earlier this spring
Born on this day in 1927 dancer and choreographer Bob Fosse
Antonio Pappano conducts Jonas Kaufmann, Sondra Radvanovsky, Aleksei Isaev, Katia Ledoux, and Elena Zilio in one of his valedictory performances from this spring
Philippe Jordan conducts Federica Lombardi, Emily D’Angelo, Peter Kellner, Filipe Manu, Kate Lindsey, and Christopher Maltman in a production by Barrie Kosky from Vienna
Born on this day in 1904 choreographer and opera director Margarethe Wallmann
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She can’t put her foot on the gas the way she used to but there’s still plenty of fuel in that tank.
Happy 66th birthday mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore
I’m old enough to remember when Yannick Nézet-Séguin could do no wrong.
Born on this day in 1819 composer Jacques Offenbach
Chris’s Cache offers two live recordings of Sondheim’s first two solo (as both composer and lyricist) Broadway shows: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Anyone Can Whistle
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