Happy 68th birthday singer Michael Feinstein
Birthday anniversaries of composer François-André Danican Philidor (1726), soprano Joan Cross (1900), and tenor Giuseppe Giacomini (1940)
Happy 72nd birthday mezzo-soprano Eirian James
Happy 64th birthday tenor Uwe Heilmann
Happy 63rd birthday pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet
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.
