On this day in 1996 soprano Victoria Loukianetz made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Violetta in six performances and that was all.
Birthday anniversaries of bass Giorgio Tadeo (1929)
and tenor Guy Chauvet (1933)
Happy 88th birthday tenor William Johns
Happy 78th birthday baritone Jonathan Summers
Happy 75th birthday baritone John Brandstetter
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.
