On this day in 1954 Mary Martin in Peter Pan flew on Broadway (score by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green)
Happy 92nd birthday contralto Lauris Elms
Happy 80th birthday dramatic soprano/mezzo-soprano Dunja Vejzovic
Happy 78th birthday composer Thomas Pasatieri
Happy 77th birthday tenor John Joseph Elwes
Happy 76th birthday baritone Wolfgang Brendel
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.
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.
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.
