Happy 89th birthday soprano Orianna Santunione.
Happy 84th birthday bass Roger Soyer.
Happy 82nd birthday soprano Julia Varady.
Just another run-of-the-mill Wednesday
On this day in 1954 Paramount Pictures released Rear Window.
Happy 88th birthday conductor Seiji Ozawa.Birthday anniversaries of “one hit wonder” composer Johann Pachabel (1653), dramatist Emanuel Schikaneder (1751), composer (not pop singer) Engelbert Humperdinck (1854), conductor Tullio Serafin (1878), tenor Aksel Schiotz (1906), and baritone Kostas Paskalis (1929).
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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A Baroque Valentine’s with Opera Lafayette | Feb | DC & NYC
Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
Tell us: What was the best of 2025?
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.
STEMdiva status
Ahead of a special boozy, bawdy Valentine’s Day concert, artistic director of Opera Lafayette Patrick Quigley speaks with soprano Maya Kherani about her journey from MIT to rising American Baroque star.