Happy 78th birthday mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade.
Birthday anniversaries of composers Ferdinando Paer (1771) and Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804); soprano Valeriya Vladimirovna Barsova (1892) and administrator and record producer Walter Legge (1906).

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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