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World AIDS Day 2021
On this day in 1951 Benjamin Britten‘s Billy Budd premiered in London.More Broadway openings on this day:In 1956 Leonard Bernstein‘s(among others’) Candide.
In 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song.Happy 76th birthday to diva of divas Bette Midler.
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.
