Maria Jeritza was the Helena (from a performance in Dresden that year)
Birthday anniversaries of bass Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (1920)
baritone Renato Capecchi (1923)
mezzo-soprano Beverly Wolff (1928)
and countertenor James Bowman (1941)
Happy 84th birthday tenor Eberhart Büchner
Happy 80th birthday mezzo-soprano Nadine Denize
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.
