A Wellsung post from last week has become a new meme/party trick at Parterre Box: What is your "birth opera"? The idea is to dig into the Metropolitan Opera Archives online and find out what the company was doing on the day you were born. (Those born during months in which the Met was dark have taken the liberty to turn their attention to other houses in the comments following La Cieca’s post.)
As it happens, the Met was busy on the day I was born, playing both a matinee and an evening performance in Boston:
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR {346}
Lucia...................Anna Moffo
Edgardo.................Sándor Kónya
Enrico..................Nicolae Herlea
Raimondo................Raymond Michalski
Normanno................Robert Nagy
Alisa...................Carlotta Ordassy
Arturo..................Charles Anthony
Conductor...............Joseph Rosenstock
DON GIOVANNI {260}
Don Giovanni............Cesare Siepi
Donna Anna..............Teresa Stich-Randall
Don Ottavio.............Jan Peerce
Donna Elvira............Mary Ellen Pracht
Leporello...............Fernando Corena
Zerlina.................Jeanette Scovotti
Masetto.................Theodor Uppman
Commendatore............Justino Díaz
Conductor...............Joseph Rosenstock
So, how about it? What’s your "birth opera"?
Playlist:
Antonio Vivaldi [att.] – Andromeda Liberata – Simone Kermes, Max Emanuel Cencic, Venice Baroque Orchestra/Andrea Marcon (Archiv)
Antonio Vivaldi – Amor Profano – Simone Kermes, Venice Baroque Orchestra/Andrea Marcon (Archiv)
Joseph Haydn – Die Schöpfung – Simone Kermes, Dorothee Mields, Steve Davislim, Locky Chung, Johannes Mannov, Balthasar-Neumann Choir and Ensemble/Thomas Hengelbrock (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)
Punch Brothers – Punch (Nonesuch)
Elvis Costello – This Year’s Model (Hip-O/Universal)
Night After Night 
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