Happy 97th birthday tenor Luigi Alva
Birthday anniversaries of composer Eugen d’Albert (1864),
conductor Victor De Sabata (1892),
director and administrator Herbert Graf (1904),
conductor Joseph Post (1906),
tenor Vilem Pribyl (1925),
Happy 69th birthday soprano Lesley Garrett
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.
