On this day in 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon. Born on this day in 1936 soprano Ursula Schröder-Feinen.Birthday anniversaries of librettist Luigi Romanelli (1751) and soprano Annelies Kupper (1906).
Happy 84th birthday opera director Jonathan Miller.
The cher public are invited to post their favorite moon-related YouTube links.
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.
