Born on this day in 1927 bass-baritone Donald Gramm
Happy 81st birthday bass David Thomas
Happy 78th birthday bass Dimitri Kavrakos
Happy 75th birthday soprano Emma Kirkby
Birthday anniversaries of composers Alfred Bachelet (1864) and Frank Bridge (1879),
librettist Guillermo Fernández Shaw (1893),
conductors Rudolf Moralt (1902) and Silvio Varviso (1924),
and tenor Peter Lindroos (1944)
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.
