Happy 70th birthday soprano Catherine Malfitano. Birthday anniversaries of composer Franz von Suppé (1819), conductors Leopold Stokowski (1882) and Zdenek Chalabala (1899) and soprano Sylvia Fisher (1910).
Happy 86th birthday soprano Nadezda Kniplova! Happy 84th birthday tenor George Shirley! Happy 72nd birthday tenor Robin Leggate!
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.
