Happy 84th birthday bass Justino Díaz
Birthday anniversaries of composers Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782),
composers Frederick Delius (1862) and Luigi Nono (1924),
sopranos Maria Müller (1898) and Lois Marshall (1924),
mezzo Ira Malaniuk (1919),
and tenor Gegam Grigorian (1951).
Happy 85th birthdays to tenor Ermanno Mauro (some sources say January 20) and soprano and director Lorna Haywood
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.
