Happy 99th birthday baritone Robert Massard
Happy 83rd birthday soprano Suzanne Murphy
Happy 81st birthday mezzo-soprano Hanna Schwarz
Birthday anniversaries of novelist Walter Scott (1771),
composers Harold Fraser-Simson (1872), Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875), Jacques Ibert (1890), and Lukas Foss (1922),
tenor Ettore Parmeggiani (1895),
sopranos Elsie Morison (1924), Rita Hunter (1933), and Rita Shane (1936)
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.
Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
