Only Metropolitan Opera appearances were six performances of Fidelio in 1982
On this day in 1830 Vincenzo Bellini‘s I Capuleti e i Montecchi premieres in Venice, and in 1913 Gabriel Fauré‘s Pénélope premieres in Paris
Birthday anniversary of composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678),
soprano Dora Labbette (1898),
and conductor Ferdinand Leitner (1912)
Happy 88th birthday composer Aribert Reimann
Happy 83rd birthday conductor Yury Simonov
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.
Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
Ahead of a special boozy, bawdy Valentine’s Day concert, artistic director of Opera Lafayette Patrick Quigley speaks with soprano Maya Kherani about her journey from MIT to rising American Baroque star.
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.
