Happy 86th birthday soprano Valerie Masterson. Happy 67th birthday soprano Lynne Dawson.
Seems an awful waste
On this day in 1979 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street won the Tony Award for “Best Musical.”
Happy 58th birthday baritone Peter Mattei.Birthday anniversaries of composer Charles Lecocq (1832); tenors Jan Peerce (1904) and Alessandro Ziliani (1906); soprano Ina Souez (1908) and bass-baritone Alois Pernerstorfer (1912).
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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