Happy 93rd birthday mezzo-soprano Jane Berbié
Birthday anniversaries of conductor Jascha Horenstein (1898)
and soprano Mimi Benzell (1924)
Happy 82nd birthday baritone and teacher Richard Stilwell
Happy 64th birthday soprano Phyllis Treigle
Sworded past
Born on this day in 1941 soprano Ghena Dimitrova
WindyCityOperaman
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.