On This Day

Take me to your Venus

Happy 86th birthday soprano/mezzo-soprano Grace Bumbry.

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Birthday anniversaries of composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710), conductor Percy Pitt (1869) and conductor/impresario Gaetano Merola (1881).

Happy 74th birthday soprano Margaret Marshall and happy 69th birthday tenor Peter Seiffert.

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.

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