On February 29, 1836 Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots premiered in Paris.
Birthday anniversary of composer Gioacchino Rossini (1792) and singer Dinah Shore (1916).Happy 89th birthday soprano Reri Grist.Pounding Forty-Second Street
Happy 73rd birthday to Broadway diva Bernadette Peters.
On this day in 1910 prima ballerina Anna Pavlova made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Coppelia (on a double bill with Werther!)Happy 94th birthday tenor Ragnar Ulfung.
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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.
