On this day in 1927 Ermanno Wolf-Ferari‘s opera Sly, also inspired by The Taming of the Shrew, premiered at La Scala
Happy 70th birthday soprano June Anderson
On this day in 1954 the Harold Arlen-Truman Capote musical House of Flowers opened on Broadway
Birthday anniversaries of composer Paul Bowles (1910)
tenor Gösta Winbergh (1943)
and stage director Graham Vick (1953)
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.
