Still going strong after (approximately) 1,500 YouTube appearances, Our Own Maestro Wenarto celebrates the anniversary of his birth today.
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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
To think, if I’d had a kid instead, he could be out there supporting me now, or at least off at college smoking dope and getting laid.
The diva, soon to open the Met season in Anna Bolena, marks the Four Oh milestone today.
Congratulations to the composer (Two Boys, Dark Sisters) and blogger on this day of transition from Wunderkind to Wundererwachsener. (Photo by Sam West)
La Cieca wishes you happiness today, her 35th birthday. Or, to put it more accurately, the 35th anniversary of the day La Cieca was “born,” hearing Suor Angelica sung by Renata Scotto (not pictured).
The Bronx Nightingale is 81 today!
The iconic American soprano was born April 14, 1958.
Everyone’s dream tenor was born April 8, 1921.
The very best wishes to the ultimate prima donna on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of her birth!
La Cieca thought she could omit birthday greetings for la Scotto this year since there was a big mention of the diva earlier this week, but the emails, IMs and, for all La Cieca knows, telegrams have been pouring in all day demanding a salute. And far be it from La Cieca to refuse the…
“The People’s Diva,” who brought so much darkness and so much hope to us in 2010, is 52 years young today!
The evergreen American diva was born February 10, 1927.
Many happy returns to two big-voiced, big-haired sopranos who are still very much with us!
The golden-voiced gay icon was born 89 years ago today.
Der Rosenkavalier is exactly 100 years old today, a century after the world premiere of the Strauss/Hofmannsthal comedy at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden. La Cieca invites the cher public to share favorite Rosenkavalier memories and YouTube clips.
Best birthday wishes to pirate supreme, premier podcaster and archivist of the musical sublime and ridiculous. (See below.)
The opera composer and bon vivant was born December 22, 1858.
The Bulgarian diva was born December 15, 1934.
La Cieca’s favorite Puccini opera premiered exactly 100 years ago tonight!
La Divina was born on (or about) December 3, 1923.
The prolific “Swan of Bergamo” (as he is almost never called) was born November 29, 1797.
The Austrian dramatic soprano was born November 14, 1926.
The spectacular dramatic soprano was born 74 years ago today in Pontnewynydd, Wales. She is seen below in one of her less familiar (though no less effective) roles, Hanna in Die Lustige Witwe.
Were the Swan of Catania as immortal as his melodies, he would be would be 209 years old today! Admirers of the “King of Cantilena” are invited to follow La Cieca’s example and post YouTube clips of favorite Bellini morceaux.
