Happy 64th birthday actor, playwright, cabaret performer, drag legend, raconteur and clothes horse Charles Busch. httpvh://youtu.be/CIpFyit7yE8
Born on this day in 1900 composer Ernst Krenek.
Birthday anniversaries of soprano Stella Roman (1904), bass-baritone Raimund Herincx (1927) and baritone Franz Ferdinand Nentwig (1929).Happy 80th birthday soprano Celestina Casapietra.
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.
