…and soprano Jarmila Novotná
On this day in 1982 the Larry Grossman-Betty Comden- Adolph Green musical A Doll’s Life opened on Broadway and closed after 5 performances
Birthday anniversaries of librettists Carlos Fernández Shaw (1865) and Montagu Slater (1902), and tenors Sándor Kónya (1923) and Spas Wenkoff (1928)
Happy 72nd birthdays to soprano Kathryn Montgomery-Meissner and baritone/actor William Shimell
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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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.
