Birthday greetings to Barbara Strozzi, Jean-Baptiste Lully fils, Alfred Tennyson, Paul Claudel, Alexander Fleming, Louella Parsons, Heinrich Schlusnus, Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bates, Frank Finlay, Andy Warhol, Abbey Lincoln, Barbara Windsor, Louise Sorel, Dorian Harewood, Faith Prince, Michelle Yeoh, M. Night Shyamalan, Geri Horner, Vera Farmiga and Soleil Moon Frye.
Happy Birthday and Happy Returns of the Day to Our Own JJ!
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.
