Happy 53rd birthday soprano Angela Gheorghiu. “And the rest…”
Birthday anniversaries of composer François-André Danican Philidor (1726) and soprano Joan Cross (1900).
Happy 78th birthday tenor Giuseppe Giacomini.
Happy 66th birthday mezzo-soprano Eirian James.
Happy 62nd birthday Michael Feinstein.
Happy 58th birthday tenor Uwe Heilmann.
Happy 57th birthday pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
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.
