Sound from a year earlier in Milano…
On this day in 1787 Mozart‘s Don Giovanni premiered in Prague
Born on this day in 1926 tenor Jon Vickers
Birthday anniversaries of conductor Vaclav Neumann (1920), tenor Franco Tagliavini (1934), and baritone Gerd Feldhoff (1931)
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.
