On this day in 1826 Carl Maria von Weber‘s Oberon premiered in London
On this day in 1960 Bob Merrill‘s musical Carnival! opened on Broadway
Birthday anniversaries of baritones Thomas Hemsley (1927), Peter-Christoph Runge (1933) and Hans Helm (1934)
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.
