A blessing and a curse
Born on this day in 1912, the protean Martha Mödl.
Happy 91st birthday composer Stephen Sondheim.Happy 73rd birthday composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.On this day in 1962 Harold Rome’s musical I Can Get It For You Wholesale opened on Broadway.
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.
