Born on this day in 1861 soprano Nellie Melba.
Born on this day in 1892 bass Ezio Pinza.
Born on this day in 1918 soprano Birgit Nilsson.
On this day in 1946 Irving Berlin‘s Annie Get Your Gun opened at the Imperial Theatre, to run 1,147 performances.
On this day in 1889 Massenet’s Esclarmonde premiered in Paris.
Born on this day in 1925 soprano Patrice Munsel.
Born on this day in 1922 actress Bea Arthur.
On this day in 1988 the musical Carrie opened on Broadway, to run five performances.
Asmik Grigorian stars as Tatiana in this video from the Komische Oper Berlin, directed by Barrie Kosky.
On this day in 1965 the Kander-Ebb musical Flora, the Red Menace opened at the Alvin Theatre to run 87 performances.
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On this day in 1958 Alfred Hitchcock‘s Vertigo premiered at the Stage Door Theater in San Francisco.
Happy birthday tenor Michael Fabiano.
On this day in 2017 the Metropolitan Opera celebrated 50 years at Lincoln Center.
On this day in 1948 the Metropolitan Opera presented Der Rosenkavalier in Northrup Memorial Auditorium in Minneapolis.
On this day in 1955 the Richard Adler/Jerry Ross musical Damn Yankees opened at the 46th Street Theatre, to run 1,019 performances.
Born on this day in 1930 soprano Roberta Peters.
Born on this day in 1906 actress and author Mary Astor.
On this day in 1939, the Metropolitan Opera launched a gala “New York World’s Fair Season.”
Born on this day in 1917 actress Danielle Darrieux.
On this day in 1928 Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli graced the boards of Public Hall, Cleveland in a Met touring performance of Aida.
Happy maestro day!
On this day in 1900 David Belasco‘s play Madame Butterfly opened at The Duke of York’s Theatre in London with Blanche Bates in the title role.
On this day in 1895 Lillian Nordica sang Leonora to Francesco Tamagno‘s Manrico in the tenor’s Met farewell.
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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.
