On this day in 1903 tenor Enrico Caruso made his Metropolitan Opera debut as the Duke of Mantua
Birthday anniversaries of composers Manuel de Falla (1876)
Jerry Bock (1928)
and Krzysztof Penderecki (1933)
and bass Dezso Ernster (1898)
Happy 92nd birthday tenor William Lewis
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.
