Miss Ice Glacier
Born on this day in 1919 comedienne and songstress Virginia O’Brien.
Happy 73rd birthday soprano Catherine Malfitano.Birthday anniversaries of composer Franz von Suppé (1819); conductors Leopold Stokowski (1882) and Zdenek Chalabala (1899); and sopranos Sylvia Fisher (1910) and Nadezda Kniplova (1932).
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.
