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Happy 67th birthday tenor Bruce Ford.
Happy 98th birthday baritone Robert Massard.Happy 80th birthday mezzo-soprano Hanna Schwarz.Birthday anniversaries of sopranos Elsie Morison (1924), Rita Hunter (1933) and Rita Shane (1936).
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.
