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Nana @cko236.bsky.social · Feb 11
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins – not through strength but by perseverance.”

- Confucius
#Confucius #perseverance
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📆November 29, 1825 Gioachino Rossini's comic opera "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville) is the first opera #performed in #Italian in the US, staged at NYC's Park Theater

#Opera #Rossini
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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📆November 28, 1909 Sergei #Rachmaninoff's #PianoConcerto No. 3, one of the genre's most difficult, #premieres at the New Theatre in NYC with the #composer as #soloist and the #NYSymphony Society conducted by #WalterDamrosch

#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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📆November 27, 1903 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Die Neugierigen Frauen #premieres in #Munich, Germany

#Opera #Ferrari #DieNeugierigenFrauen
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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📆November 26, 1908 Philipp Mohler, #German composer, born in #Kaiserslautern. (Died Sept11, 1982 Frankfurt, Germany)

#Mohler #composer
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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📆November 25, 1907 Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs has its first #American performance in #ManhattanOperaHouse, NYC

#Opera #Massenet #Thais #Performance #NYC
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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📆November 25, 1902 Franz Lehar's opera Wiener Frauen #premieres in #Vienna

#Opera #Lehar #WienerFrauen
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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📆November 24, 1800 Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen" #premieres in #Freiburg

#Opera #Weber #DasWaldmadchen
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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📆November 23, 1903 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his US debut at the #MetropolitanOpera House, in New York in Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto"

#Opera #Tenor #EnricoCaruso #Verdi #Rigoletto
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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📆November 22, 1862 Opera "La Forza del Destino" by Giuseppe Verdi debuts at #BolshoiTheatre in St. Petersburg, Russia

#Opera #LaForzadelDestino #Verdi
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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#HappyFriday!
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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📆November 21, 1901 Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot" #premieres in #Dresden

#Opera #Strauss #Feuersnot
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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📆November 20, 1901 Dramatic opera "Grisélidis" by #JulesMassenet, #ArmandSilvestre and #EugèneMorand #premieres the #Opéra-Comique in Paris, #France

#Opera #Grisėlidis
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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📆November 20, 1805 Ludwig van Beethoven's "Fidelio", his only opera, #premieres at #Vienna's Theater an der Wien

#Opera #Beethoven #Fidelio
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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📆November 19, 1923 #Hungarian #composer Béla Bartók's #orchestral work Dance Suite #premieres, celebrating the 50th #anniversary of the #unification of the cities #Buda and #Pest

#Bartók #DanceSuit
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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📆November 19, 1849 Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 4, "The Tragic", #premieres in #Leipzig, more than 20 years after the composer's death

#Schubert #Symphony#4
#TheTragic
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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📆November 18, 1883 Antonin Dvořak’s Husitska" (Hussite Overture) #premieres at the gala opening of the #PragueNationalTheater

#Dvořak #Husitska #Overture
#ClassicalMusic #TodayMusicHistory #ClassicalMusicHistory
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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📆November 18, 1911 First American #performance of Ludwig Thuille's opera "Lobetanz", #MetropolitanOpera in New York City

#Opera #LudwigThuille #Lobetanz
#ClassicalMusic
#ClassicalMusicHistory
#TodayMusicHistory
November 18, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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📆November 17, 1866 Opera "Mignon" by Ambroise Thomas premieres at the Opéra-Comique in #Paris, Francce

#Opera #Mignon #AmbroiseThomas #Premieres
#Opéra-Comique
#ClassicalMusic
#ClassicalMusicHistory
#TodayMusicHistory
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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📆November 17, 1839 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio" premieres at the #TeatroallaScala in #Milan

#Verdi #Opera #Premieres
#ClassicalMusic
#ClassicalMusicHistory
#TodayMusicHistory
November 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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📆November 16, 1900 #Inauguralconcert by the #PhiladelphiaOrchestra, led by Fritz #Scheel at the #AcademyofMusic; program includes works of #CarlGoldmark, #Beethoven, #Tchaikovsky, #Weber, and #Wagner, with #pianist #OssipGabrilowitsch as as soloist.

#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusicHistory
Philadelphia Orchestra - Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia
Founded in 1900, the Philadelphia Orchestra developed into an iconic organization through its musicianship and service as a cultural ambassador.
philadelphiaencyclopedia.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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📆November 15, 1845 William Vincent Wallace, #conducts the #premiere of his first opera, "Maritana" at the #TheatreRoyal, Drury Lane in #London, England


#Wallace #Opera #Maritana
#MusicHistory
#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#ClassicalMusicHistory
November 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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📆November 13, 1868 Gioachino Rossini died in Passy, a suburb of Paris aged 76. #Rossini famous for his 39 operas and composed variety of other pieces; songs, chamber music etc. Rossini was born March 29, 1792 in #Pesaro, #Italy

#Opera #Composer
#MusicHistory
#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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To all our Veterans, Thank you for your service!!!

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." — General Douglas MacArthur

#VeteransDay
#ThankYouforYourService
#Veterans #Soldiers
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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📆November 11, 1974 Operatic soprano Maria Callas makes her final public appearance in #Sapporo, #Japan

#Opera #Soprano #MariaCallas
#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#MusicHistory
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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📆November 11, 1901 Maurice Ravel's piano composition "Jeux d'eau" #premieres

#MauriceRavel #Piano
#PianoComposition
#MusicHistory
#TodayMusicHistory
#ClassicalMusic
#ClassicalMusicHistory
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM