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Happy April Fools’ Day!
On this day in 2002 the Metropolitan Opera presented its premiere of Wolf-Ferrari’s Sly.Birthday anniversaries of writer Antoine Francois Prevost (1697); composers Ferruccio Busoni (1866), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873) and William Bergsma (1921); tenor/baritone Renato Zanelli (1892); director and administrator Günther Rennert (1911) and tenor Hermin Esser (1928).
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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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Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
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.
