Happy 59th birthday mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova
On this day in 1791 Cherubini‘s Lodoiska premiered in Paris
Birthday anniversaries of composer Giovanni Bononcini (1670),
mezzo-soprano and composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821),
conductors Kurt Masur and Carlo Franci (both 1927),
and baritone Yury Mazurok (1931)
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.
Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
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.
