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Born on this day in 1950 mezzo-soprano/soprano Maria Ewing
Speranza Scappucci conducts the Metropolitan Opera opening night of Puccini’s wistful opera with Angel Blue, Jonathan Tetelman, Emily Pogorelc, and Dekhzod Davronov
La forza del destino concluded its run at the Metropolitan Opera with a significant cast change.
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On this day in 1964 the Jule Styne-Bob Merrill musical Funny Girl opened on Broadway
Susan Graham will lead a four-performance run of A Little Night Music at Lincoln Center in June.
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Renata Tebaldi had one major advantage over Milanov and Callas (and most other sopranos): she was Italian.
Born on this day in 1910 soprano Magda Olivero
On this day in 1920 the first performance of Tchaikovsky‘s Eugene Onegin at the Met
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Nadine Sierra, Benjamin Bernheim, Samantha Hankey, Frederick Ballentine, and Will Liverman in a broadcast from New York
On this day in 1977 soprano Ileana Cotrubas made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Mimì
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Natalie Dessay debuts as Madam Rose in Paris in 2025
Maria Callas’s official debut in opera was as La Gioconda in 1947 at the arena in Verona.
Birthday Celebrations of Musical Theater composers:
Next week Puccini’s La Rondine returns to the Met for the first time in eleven years, so Chris’s Cache offers three quite diverse sopranos as Magda: Ljuba Welitsch, Virginia Zeani, and Cristina Gallardo-Domâs.
On this day in 2008 soprano Angela Meade made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elvira in Ernani
