Happy 87th birthday mezzo-soprano Jane Berbié. Born on this day in 1941 soprano Ghena Dimitrova.Birthday anniversaries of conductor Jascha Horenstein (1898) and soprano Mimi Benzell (1924)
Happy 76th birthday baritone and teacher Richard Stilwell and 58th birthday soprano Phyllis Treigle.
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.
