Thirty years ago today Dolora Zajick made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Azucena. Birthday anniversaries of baritone Mack Harrell (1909), tenor Helmut Krebs (1913), baritone Manuel Ausensi (1919), soprano Dorothy Dow (1920) and mezzo-soprano Irene Dalis (1925).
Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera
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.
