Birthday anniversaries of composer Licinio Refice (1883),
soprano Anny Konetzni (1902),
baritones Todd Duncan (1903),
and Yevgeny Kibkalo (1932).
Happy 84th birthday soprano Gilda Cruz-Romo
Happy 69th birthday bass Paata Burchuladze
Happy 57th birthday tenor Anthony Dean Griffey
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.
