Also born on this day in 1926 soprano Elinor Ross
Birthday anniversaries of writer Herman Melville (1819),
conductor William Steinberg (1899),
contralto Lili Chookasian (1921),
actor Dom DeLuise (1933),
designer Yves Saint-Laurent (1936),
and tenor and teacher Nico Castel (1931)
Happy 83rd birthday conductor Jordi Savall
Happy 82nd birthday tenor Claes H Ahnsjö
…and today your humble servant Windy City Operaman adds another ring around his trunk. Happy Birthday Leos!
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.
