On this day in 1876 Ponchielli’s La Gioconda premiered in Milan.
Birthday anniversaries of conductors Adrian Boult (1889) and Josef Krips (1902), tenor Raoul Jobin (1906), Paul Kuen (1910) and Walter Raffeiner (1947), bass-baritone Walter Berry (1929), baritone John Reardon (1930) and soprano Sabine Hass (1949).
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.
