On this day in 1975 soprano Magda Olivero made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Tosca.
Born on this day 99 years ago, actress and singer Doris Day.
If works like Salome and Erwartung defined modernism in the first decades of the 20th century, Die Tote Stadt and Palestrina represented the regressive avant garde.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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