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Giuseppe Verdi – 210th Birthday
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 9th October 2023Giuseppe Verdi was born October 9th (or 10th) 1813. Starting with the appearance of his third opera Nabucco in 1842 he has been the most popular of operatic composers. At first musical scholars were divided as to his artistic worth. Some thought him a popularizer who was not close to the artistic merit of Richard…
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March Birthdays
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 30th March 2014The photos below are, as usual, by Robert Cahen.
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Placido Domingo 72 Today
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 21st January 2014Today is the great artist’s 72nd birthday. His career has been unique. The best way to observe his anniversary is to let him do it himself. Listen to this remarkable recording of the great aria from Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine made in performance in San Francisco 42 years ago. At this time he was already 15 years into…
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Luciano Pavarotti’s Birthday
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 12th October 2012Today is the 77th anniversary of the great tenor’s birth – born October 12, 1935 in Modena, Italy. To mark the occasion here a few photos of the late tenor take by the renowned photographer Robert Cahen. Finally here is the young Pavarotti singing the first act duet from Lucia Di Lammermoor with Renata Scotto – 1967. Verrano a te
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Leonard Warren’s 100th Birthday
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 25th April 2011Leonard Warren was born April 21, 1911. No baritone within living memory has matched him in the great Verdi baritone roles Below is the big second act aria from the most challenging of Verdi’s baritone roles – the title character from Rigoletto. He sang this part 89 times with at the Met both in New…
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