Born on this day in 1879 “The First Lady of the American Theatre,” Ethel Barrymore.
Happy 62nd birthday tenor Bruce Ford.
Happy 93rd birthday baritone Robert Massard.Happy 75th birthday mezzo-soprano Hanna Schwarz.
Birthday anniversaries of novelist Walter Scott (1771) composers Harold Fraser-Simson (1872), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875), Jacques Ibert (1890) and Lukas Foss (1922); tenor Ettore Parmeggiani (1895); sopranos Elsie Morison (1924) Rita Hunter (1933) and Rita Shane (1936).
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.
