On this day in 2005 mezzo-soprano Joyce Di Donato made her Met debut as Cherubino
Birthday anniversaries of composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739), tenor Giuseppe Lugo (1898), baritone Sigurd Björling (1907), composer Harold Faberman (1929), soprano Ruth Falcon (1942), film and stage director Patrice Chéreau (1944), and composer and conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli (1946)
Happy 81st birthday soprano Faye Robinson
Happy 70th birthday soprano Marie McLaughlin
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.
