On this day in 1996 the 25th Anniversary Gala for conductor James Levine took place at the Met. Memories…
Birthday anniversaries of composers Louis Niedermeyer (1802), Friedrich von Flotow (1812), and Arthur Nevin (1871),
soprano Delia Reinhardt (1892),
and conductor Guido Cantelli (1920)
On this day in 1867 Gounod‘s Roméo et Juliette premiered in Paris
On this day in 1877 Massenet‘s Le Roi de Lahore premiered in Paris
Happy 71st birthday soprano Ilona Tokody
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.
