Birthday anniversaries of soprano Giannina Arangi-Lombardi (1891),
conductor and pianist Wilfrid Pelletier (1896),
and mezzo-soprano Helene Bouvier (1905)
Happy 87th birthday bass Stafford Dean
Happy 79th birthday tenor Wolfgang Neumann
Happy 78th birthday baritone Brent Ellis
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.
