Birthday anniversaries of composer Lyubomir Pipkov (1904) and conductor Kurt Sanderling (1912)
Happy 81st birthday composer Yevhen Stankovych
Happy 74th birthdays to tenor Bonaventura Bottone and countertenor Jeffrey Gall
Plus Blanche que la blanche hermine
Born on this day in 1918 mezzo-soprano Blanche Thebom (some sources say 1915)
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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