Born on this day in 1943 conductor James Levine
Happy 68th birthday soprano Sylvia McNair
Birthday anniversaries of composer Ernest Guiraud (1837)
and tenors Kenneth McKellar (1927) and William Cochran (1943)
Happy 74th birthday mezzo-soprano Livia Budai
Happy 74th birthday tenor Kim Begley
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.
