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Concerned citizens banded together to save the theater and were successful in getting it named to the National Register of Historic Places on August 20, 1977 — and renamed The Bardavon 1869 Opera House. Since then, over $5 million has been raised and used to partially renovate the Bardavon, which is now in use again as a venue for a broad ...
1935 – Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano and actress (d. 2022) 1935 – Pepe Cáceres, Colombian bullfighter (d. 1987) [151] 1936 – Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the MRI (d. 2022) 1936 – Fred Neil, American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001) 1937 – David Frith, English historian, journalist, and ...
The only title change at the Civic Center during WWF Championship Wrestling tapings was on June 17, 1985 when The U.S. Express (Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham) defeated "The Foreign Legion" (The Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff), regaining the WWF Tag Team Championship they had lost to the pair at Wrestlemania on March 31, 1985.
Poughkeepsie (/ p ə ˈ k ɪ p s i / pə-KIP-see), officially the City of Poughkeepsie, which is separate from the Town of Poughkeepsie around it, is a city in the U.S. state of New York. It is the county seat of Dutchess County , with a 2020 census population of 31,577. [ 6 ]
The Hudson River Rowing Association "welcomed back" the Poughkeepsie Regatta in October 2008, running races in eight classifications on a 2.3-mile segment of the traditional course. [ 9 ] In October 2009, to celebrate the quadricentennial of Henry Hudson 's exploration of the Hudson River, Marist College hosted a reenactment of the Poughkeepsie ...
The opera was premiered at the Glimmerglass Festival on July 14, 2019, with direction by the librettist Tazewell Thompson. [7] Additional productions scheduled at the Washington National Opera , Lyric Opera of Chicago , Minnesota Opera , and Lincoln Center 's Mostly Mozart Festival were cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19.
Chad Shelton (born 1970 in Orange, Texas) is an American operatic tenor.Particularly associated with the Houston Grand Opera (HGO), Shelton has excelled in performances of contemporary American operas and in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Verdi.
2 March 1961 – Simone Young (pictured), the first woman to conduct at the Vienna State Opera, was born in Sydney, Australia. 6 March 1853 – Fanny Salvini-Donatelli starred in the world premiere of Verdi's La traviata. 16 March 1894 – Sibyl Sanderson sang the title role in the world premiere of Massenet's Thaïs.