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On this day in 2008 soprano Angela Meade made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Elvira in Ernani.
Birthday anniversaries of soprano Hilde Konetzni (1905), bass-baritone Gustav Neidlinger (1910), baritone Georg Ots (1920) and tenor and conductor Nigel Rogers (1935).La Cieca and members of the parterre box staff celebrate the coming of spring.
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.
