On April 10:
On this day in 1996 tenor Roberto Alagna made his Met debut as Rodolfo.
Happy 95th birthday tenor Luigi Alva.Birthday anniversaries of composer Eugen d’Albert (1864), conductor Victor De Sabata (1892), director and administrator Herbert Graf (1904), conductor Joseph Post (1906) and tenor Vilem Pribyl (1925).
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.
Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
