- Film, stage and opera director and designer Luchino Visconti (1906)
- Baritone Sigurd Björling (1907)
- Soprano Ruth Falcon (1942)
- Film and stage director Patrice Chéreau (1944)
- Composer and conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946).
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On this day in 2005 mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato made her Met debut as Cherubino.
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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.