On this day in 2007: the Metropolitan Opera debut of tenor Lawrence Brownlee as Almaviva. On this day in 1970 Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company opened on at the Alvin Theatre, to run 705 performances.
Birthday anniversary of playwright and poet William Shakespeare (baptismal day in 1564).
Happy 48th birthday soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek.
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.
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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.
