She made her historic debut at Bayreuth 1961 as Venus, Met debut 1965 as Eboli, and her Met farewell at the James Levine gala in 1996.
Birthday anniversaries of composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710)
conductor Percy Pitt (1869)
and conductor/impresario Gaetano Merola (1881).
Happy 74th birthday soprano Margaret Marshall
Happy 70th birthday tenor Peter Seiffert
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.
