Happy 51st birthday tenor Jonas Kaufmann.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njs-aQy_89c
Happy 80th birthday soprano Helen Donath.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIET-ynBLf0
Happy 90th birthday mezzo-soprano Josephine Veasey.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGt2VqMyF4A
Birthday anniversaries of composer Carl Orff (1895), mezzo-soprano Ebe Stignani (1903) and soprano Ljuba Welitsch (1913).
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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