https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUU5f9TK350
Montserrat Caballe, Nicolai Gedda, Sherrill Milnes, and Justino Diaz are conducted by James Levine
Birthday anniversaries of librettist Felice Romani (1788),
composer Franz Schubert (1797),
tenor Mario Lanza and performer Carol Channing (both 1921)
Happy 87th birthdays administrator Speight Jenkins and composer Phillip Glass
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.
