SEPTEMBER 30
1935:Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin’s opera about African American life in Charleston, S.C., premieres at the Colonial Theater in Boston before moving on to Broadway.
1791: The Magic Flute, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and set to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, premieres in Vienna. Mozart conducts the orchestra on opening night, barely two months before his death at the age of 35.
1955: Actor James Dean, then a rising star in Hollywood and an enduring symbol of cool, dies in a car accident when his Porsche Spyder is involved in a head-on collision near Paso Robles, Calif. He was 24 years old.
1791: The Magic Flute, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and set to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, premieres in Vienna. Mozart conducts the orchestra on opening night, barely two months before his death at the age of 35.
1955: Actor James Dean, then a rising star in Hollywood and an enduring symbol of cool, dies in a car accident when his Porsche Spyder is involved in a head-on collision near Paso Robles, Calif. He was 24 years old.
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