On This Day

Daughter of the wind

Happy 72nd birthday actress, director and screenwriter Fanny Ardant.

By WindyCityOperaman

March 22, 2022

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Born on this day in 1930 composer Stephen Sondheim.

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Happy 74th birthday composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

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On this day in 1962 Harold Rome’s musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale opened on Broadway

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Birthday anniversaries of soprano Edith Mason (1893) and soprano/mezzo-soprano Martha Mödl (1912).

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.