Today, on “Cyber Monday,” our doyenne La Cieca invites you to peruse some of the remarkable deals in electronics, books, DVDs, computers and cell phones available at Amazon.com.
On this day in 1843 Michael Balfe’s The Bohemian Girl premiered in London.
Happy 82nd birthday mezzo-soprano Alexandrina Milcheva.Happy 70th birthday tenor Neil Rosenshein.
Dan Soda (Windy City Operaman) is a Chicago native whose first visit to opera was at age 17 and Massenet’s Werther with Troyanos and Kraus. Nothing was ever the same. Opera and concert performances, recordings and video are an obsession. He prepares Parterre Box’s daily birthday and anniversary tributes. He also enjoys concerts, live theater and movies.
Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
