Are women magic?
On this day in 1973 the film Day for Night premiered at Cannes.
Born on this day in 1957 soprano Daniela Dessì.On this day in 1957 the Bob Merrill musical New Girl in Town opened on Broadway.Birthday anniversaries of conductor Otto Klemperer (1885), composer Lou Harrison (1917), and sopranos Patrice Munsel (1925) and Carmen Arlen Balthrop (1948).
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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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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.