Happy 73rd birthday tenor Francisco Araiza
Birthday anniversaries of soprano Göta Ljungberg (1893)
soprano/mezzo-soprano Margherita Grandi (1894)
tenors Gianni Poggi (1921)
and John Aler (1949)
and mezzo-soprano Anna Reynolds (1931)
Happy 83rd birthday conductor Alain Lombard
Happy 82nd birthday director and designer Robert Wilson
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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Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
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.
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.
