Born on this day in 1929 baritone Eberhard Waechter
Birthday anniversaries of composers Ottorino Respighi (1879), Richard Hageman (1882), and David Diamond (1915),
mezzo-soprano Erzsébet Komlóssy (1933),
tenors Manfred Jung and János B Nagy (both in 1940),
and baritone Timothy Nolen (1941)
Happy 86th birthday tenor Giorgio Lamberti
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.
