On this day in 1972 conductor Henry Lewis made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting La bohème on what was his 40th birthday.
Birthday anniversaries of writers Oscar Wilde (1854) and Eugene O’Neill (1888)
bass Guus Hoekman and baritone Gino Bechi (both in 1913)
and mezzo-soprano Margreta Elkins (1930 or 1932)
Happy 93rd birthday conductor James Lockhart
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.
