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Birthday anniversaries of soprano Jenny Lind (1820). mezzo-soprano Julia Culp (1880), and composers Karol Szymanowski (1882) and Udo Zimmermann (1943).
Happy 87th birthdays tenor Vasile Moldoveanu and conductor Leopold Hager.
Happy 72nd birthday tenor Keith Lewis.
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.
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.
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.