Happy 52nd birthday to mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova. On this day in 1791 Cherubini’s Lodoïska premiered in Paris.
Birthday anniversaries of composer Giovanni Bononcini (1670), mezzo-soprano and composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821), conductor Kurt Masur (1927) and baritone Yury Mazurok (1931).
Happy birthday to conductor Carlo Franci (91) and composer Tobias Picker (63).
And happy birthday to diva Othalie Graham!
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.
