Happy 67th birthday baritone Omar Ebrahim.
Happy 65th birthday soprano Cynthia Haymon.
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Happy 86h birthday to actress, comedian and singer Jo Anne Worley.
On this day in 1791 Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito premiered in Prague.Birthday anniversaries of composer Ferdinand Hummel (1855) and baritone John Charles Thomas (1891).
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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.