Birthday anniversaries of conductor Antonino Votto (1896)
and soprano Käthe Heidersbach (1897)
Happy 77th birthday countertenor and conductor René Jacobs
Happy 68th birthday baritone François Le Roux
Three Broadway Premieres:
In 1940, Cole Porter’s Panama Hattie
In 1949, Kurt Weil and Maxwell Anderson‘s Lost in the Stars
In 2003, Stephen Schwartz‘s Wicked
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.
