Happy 75th birthday mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dPmWfAhuPg
Birthday anniversaries of composers Ferdinando Paer (1771) and Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804); soprano Valeriya Vladimirovna Barsova (1892); administrator and record producer Walter Legge (1906).
Happy 78th birthday conductor Edo De Waart.
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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