Her only Met appearance was as a guest at 50th Anniversary of Giovanni Martinelli’s debut in 1963
Birthday anniversaries of librettist Lorenzo da Ponte (1749),
composers Arthur Honegger (1892) and Stephen Oliver (1950),
and bass Owen Brannigan (1908)
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.
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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.
