Happy 79th birthday baritone Håkan Hagegård

Birthday anniversary of librettist Antonio Ghislanzoni (1824), sopranos Adelaide Saraceni (1895) and Adele Kern (1901), composer Virgil Thomson (1996), and conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire (1940)

WindyCityOperaman

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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