Birthday anniversaries of composers Edward Elgar (1857) and Marvin Hamlisch (1944),
conductor Felix Weingartner (1863),
baritone Josef Metternich (1915),
and soprano Inga Nielsen (1946)
Happy 84th birthday tenor Eduardo Gimenez
Happy 77th birthday conductor Mark Elder
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.
