Happy 69th birthday soprano Margaret Marshall and happy 64th birthday tenor Peter Seiffert.
Saving Grace
Happy 84th birthday soprano/mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry.
Birthday anniversaries of composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), conductor Percy Pitt (1869), conductor/impresario Gaetano Merola (1881).
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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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.