Born on this day in 1946 soprano Edita Gruberova, performing music for the holiday . . .
Born on this day librettist Ranieri de’Calzabigi (1714)
composer Rafael Calleja (1874)
baritone Karl Schmitt-Walter (1900)
basses Josef Greindl (1912)
and Alexander Filippovich Vedernikov (1927)
and conductor Claudio Scimone (1934)
Happy 66th birthday tenor Frank Lopardo
Happy 64th birthday soprano Tiziana Fabbricini
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.
