Happy 62nd birthday soprano Sumi Jo
On this day premieres of Giacomo Meyerbeer‘s Robert le Diable in Paris (1831) and Pietro Mascagni‘s Iris in Rome (1898)
Birthday anniversaries of baritone Jacques Jansen (1913), bass Günter Reich (1921), director Peter Hall(1930), and tenor Jerome Pruett (1941)
Happy 75th birthday mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Laurence
Happy 73rd birthday conductor Kent Nagano
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.
