Happy 68th birthday to playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTxqsfur7M
Happy 83rd birthday tenor Giacomo Aragall.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7h38y1Kxec
Birthday anniversaries of writer Thomas Mann (1875), soprano Grete Stückgold (1895), mezzo-soprano/soprano Gloria Lane (1925) and conductor Klaus Tennstedt (1926).
Happy 83rd to baritone Alberto Rinaldi.
Happy 81st birthday countertenor and conductor Paul Esswood.
Happy Pride Month to soprano Adrianne Pieczonka.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3gT3zgmEwg
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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