On this day in 1900 Puccini’s Tosca premiered in Rome. Birthday anniversaries of bass Ludwig Hofmann (1895), mezzo Grace Hoffman (1921), tenor Jean Cox (1922), baritone Louis Quilico (1929).
Happy 79th birthday to baritone Siegmund Nimsgern and Happy 63rd to tenor Ben Heppner.
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.
