Born on this day Cornell MacNeil and Ettore Bastianini (both in 1922), and Pablo Elvira (1938)
Birthday anniversaries of librettist Giovanni Francesco Busenello (1598), composers Tomás López Torregrosa (1868) and Rafael Millán (1893), contralto Karin Branzell (1891), soprano Lina Bruna Rasa (1907), tenor Helmut Melchert (1910), conductor Ettore Gracis (1915)
On this day in 1976 the off-Broadway musical Oh! Calcutta! opened
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.
