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Birthday anniversaries of soprano Giannina Arangi-Lombardi (1891), conductor and pianist Wilfrid Pelletier (1896) and mezzo-soprano Helene Bouvier (1905).
Forty(!!!) years ago today, the musical film Can’t Stop the Music put the final nail in the coffin of disco.
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.
