Birthday anniversaries of tenors Fritz Wolff (1894)
Giovanni Voyer (1901)
and Warren Ellsworth (1951)
composer Howard Hanson (1896)
contralto Claramae Turner (1920)
and conductor Kenneth Montgomery (1943)
Happy 78th birthday baritone Alan Titus
Happy 74th birthday soprano Ann Monoyios
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.
