On this day in 1944 the Leonard Bernstein-Betty Comden-Adolph Green musical On the Town premiered on Broadway
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Happy 57th birthday tenor Piotr Beczala
Birthday anniversaries of tenor Miguel Fleta (1893)
composer Roger Sessions (1896)
baritone Paolo Silveri (1913)
and soprano Rita Orlandi Malaspina (1937)
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.
