Elisabeth Grümmer’s Elsa was the novelty in last night’s repeat of Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” at the Metropolitan Opera, brought back from last season for the special Lincoln Center Festival. The tall blond soprano has had a distinguished career for some years in Europe. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in a role that suits her well.
Birthday anniversaries of baritone Josef Herrmann (1903) and tenor Giovanni Malipiero (1906).
Happy 80th birthday conductor John Eliot Gardiner.
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.
