“Old people are scary”
Happy 86th birthday to the sublime Dame Maggie Smith.
On this day in 1910 Engelbert Humperdinck’s “other” opera Königskinder premiered at the Met.On this day in 1944 the Leonard Bernstein–Betty Comden–Adolph Green musical On the Town premiered on Broadway.Happy 54th birthday tenor Piotr Beczala.Happy birthday to hunkentenors Richard Troxell and Jonathan Blalock.
WindyCityOperaman
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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Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
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.
