On this day in 1972 Stephen Schwartz’s musical Pippin opened on Broadway. Ben Vereen, Jill Clayburgh and Irene Ryan star.
Birthday anniversaries of composer Albert Lortzing (1801)
baritone Imre Palló (1891)
and soprano Denise Duval (1921)
Happy 82nd birthday conductor Lawrence Foster
Happy 72nd birthday soprano Mari Anne Häggander
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.
