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Born on this day in 1890 tenors Lauritz Melchior and Beniamino Gigli.
Birthday anniversaries of composer Emanuele d’Astorga (1680), dramatist Henrik Ibsen (1828), soprano Anne Roselle (1894) and soprano Helena Braun (1903).
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.
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.
