Ritas and rituals
Happy 68th birthday tenor Bruce Ford
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx4HUnVW14E
Happy 99th birthday baritone Robert Massard
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDM3GlG7vdM
Happy 83rd birthday soprano Suzanne Murphy
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qBQ_dG2Ixs
Happy 81st birthday mezzo-soprano Hanna Schwarz
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX7anQzaNKQ
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)
WindyCityOperaman
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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Topics: On This Day
