Happy 68th birthday actor Christoph Waltz
Happy 74th birthday tenor Francisco Araiza
Birthday anniversaries of soprano Göta Ljungberg (1893), soprano/mezzo-soprano Margherita Grandi (1894), tenors Gianni Poggi (1921) and John Aler (1949), and mezzo-soprano Anna Reynolds (1931)
Happy 84th birthday conductor Alain Lombard
Photo: Florian Kleinfenn
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.
