Born on this day in 1912 soprano Virginia MacWatters.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0dy5_xludM
Happy 86th birthday soprano Marisa Galvany.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6-VqVnWtz4
Birthday anniversaries of composer Carl Zeller (1842), composer Alfredo Catalani (1854) and sopranos Mária Gyurkovics (1913) and Anneliese Rothenberger (1924).
Happy Juneteenth!
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmnAk2XHPro
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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