On this day in 1964 Fiddler on the Roof opened on Broadway
Birthday anniversaries of baritone Herbert Janssen (1892), soprano Elisabeth Rethberg (1894), stage director and librettist Colin Graham, and conductor Nello Santi (both 1931)
Happy 91st birthday composer Leonardo Balada
Happy 78th birthday bass John Tomlinson
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.
