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1927 Birth of Austrian pianist Paul BADURA-SKODA in Vienna. 
Joseph Kaiser, Tenor
Joseph Kaiser made his Metropolitan Opera debut Wednesday, 3 OCT 2007, in Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette," with Placido Domingo conducting. Kaiser, a 29-year-old Canadian, was a surprise replacement for famed tenor Rolando Villazon, who canceled six weeks ago.
In 1956 the fledgling Lyric Opera of Chicago hired Bruno Bartoletti, a young Italian conductor making a name for himself in his native Florence. Bartoletti's October 15th departure comes amid the stir caused by Lyric's firing of temperamental soprano for missing rehearsals.
Composer Philip Glass is an ambitious man who at age 70 is debuting an opera about the Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history, whose legacy still haunts the country more than 140 years later. Glass, whose inspirations for more than 20 operas have ranged from a vision of Albert Einstein strolling on the beach to Gandhi preaching nonviolence, says the new opera, "Appomattox," is different from his other works.
Despite the firing of Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu a scant four days before opening night, not only did the show go on Monday at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the company's production of Puccini's "La boheme" actually managed to go on as if nothing had happened. As if the internationally acclaimed Gheorghiu had not skipped out on six of 10 rehearsals and jetted off to New York to be with her husband, tenor Roberto Alagna, who is singing Romeo in Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette'' at the Metropolitan Opera. As if her understudy, Cuban-American soprano Elaine Alvarez, [photo], who blossomed into a luminous performance on Monday, had been Lyric's choice for Puccini's doomed Mimi all along.
Romanian baritone David Ohanesian, 80, passed away on Sunday night, 30 SEP 2007. Ohanesian has sung on the most famous world stages, accompanying celebrities like Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballe, Placido Domingo, Leontyne Price or Brigitte Nilsson. According to NewsIn, Ohanesian took part in more than 2000 opera shows and played about 40 roles, among which the memorable Oedipus of George Enescu, Romania’s most famous composer. Ohanesian was present on most of the stages in the world like Paris, Athens, Berlin, Sofia, Stockholm, Moscow or Lausanne.
1945 FP of Aaron Copland's orchestral suite of Appalachian Spring ballet at Carnegie Hall. New York Philharmonic conducted by Artur Rodzinski. Performances the next day by the Boston Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra. Ballet was choreographed by Martha Graham which premiered 30 OCT 1944 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Including-Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO
1923 Birth of Polish-American conductor and composer Stanislaw SKROWACZEWSKI in Lwow.
Alexander Lazarev has been named the principal conductor of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. During his term from September 2008 to August 2011, he will focus on the works of Sergei Prokofiev and other Russian composers, reports the Itar-Tass news agency. The 62-year-old Lazarev was born in Moscow and studied with Leo Ginsbourg at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1971 and 1972, he won first prizes in the Soviet Union's national conducting competition and the Karajan Competition in Berlin, respectively.
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