Birthday anniversaries of tenors Dinu Badescu (1904)
Reiner Goldberg (1939)
playwright Arthur Miller (1915)
baritone Rolando Panerai (1924)
Three Broadway openings on this day:
Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick‘s Tenderloin (1960)
Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz’s Jennie with Mary Martin (1963)
Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner‘s On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
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.
