Happy 66th birthday soprano Aprile Millo
On this day in 1883 Leo Delibes‘s Lakme premiered in Paris
Birthday anniversaries of bass Salvatore Baccaloni (1900)
and conductor Jean Fournet (1913)
Happy 75th birthday soprano Eiddwen Harrhy
On this day in 1960 the Charles Strouse-Lee Adams musical Bye Bye Birdie opened on Broadway
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.
