Happy 62nd birthday soprano Andrea Rost
Birthday anniversaries of composer and arranger/orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett (1894),
sopranos Mary Ellis (1897) and Adele Leigh (1928),
conductor Max Rudolf (1902),
bass Oscar Natzka (1912),
and director and administrator Lotfi Mansouri (1929)
Happy 94th birthday stage designer and director Pier Luigi Pizzi
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.
