On this day in 1954 the Harold Arlen–Truman Capote musical House of Flowers opened at the Alvin Theatre to run 165 performances. On this day in 1948 Cole Porter‘s Kiss Me Kate opened on Broadway.Happy 66th birthday soprano June Anderson.
Happy 65th birthday director Graham Vick.
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.
