On this day in 1938, two Met debuts in La bohème: tenor Jussi Bjoerling and soprano Mafalda Favero. On this day 30 years ago Mystery Science Theatre 3000 premiered on on KTMA, a cable access channel in Minneapolis. This program, which Our Own JJ first viewed in 1990 on The Comedy Channel, was a seminal influence on parterre box.
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Birthday anniversary of soprano Lilli Lehmann (1848).
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.
