The gayest tweet of all time ushers in mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade‘s 73rd birthday.
The gayest tweet of all time ushers in mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade‘s 73rd birthday.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dPmWfAhuPg
Also birthday anniversaries of composers Ferdinando Paer (1771) and Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804); soprano Valeriya Vladimirovna Barsova (1892) and administrator and record producer Walter Legge (1906).
Happy 77th birthday conductor Edo De Waart!
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vO99VZmaKo
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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