Birthday anniversaries of composer Oscar Straus (1870), tenor Fernand Ansseau (1890), soprano Gina Cigna (1900), conductors Julius Rudel (1921), Sarah Caldwell (1924) and Lorin Maazel (1930), and bass-baritone Norman Treigle (1927).
“Opera is for a lifetime”
Happy 78th birthday soprano Kiri Te Kanawa.
On this day in 1964 Metropolitan Opera debuts of Leonard Bernstein, Franco Zeffirelli and Luigi Alva in a new production of Verdi’s Falstaff.On this day in 1831 Vincenzo Bellini’s La sonnambula premiered in Milan.
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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.
