On this day in 1816 Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia had its disastrous premiere in Rome.
Birthday anniversaries of director and administrator Carl Ebert (1887) sopranos Nadine Conner (1913) and Margareta Hallin (1931, she passed on February 9) and tenor Giorgio Merighi (1939)
Happy 71st birthday composer Anthony Davis.
Happy 69th birthday conductor Riccardo Chailly.
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.
