On this day in 1840 Donizetti‘s La favorite premiered in Paris
On this day in 1877 Camille Saint-Saens’s opera Samson et Dalila premiered in Weimar
Birthday anniversaries of tenor and teacher Paul Althouse and conductors Peter Herman Adler and John Barbirolli (all born 1899), and mezzo-soprano Irina Arkhipova (1925)
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.
