Happy 80th birthday conductor and composer Michael Tilson Thomas
Birthday anniversaries of bass Ernst Wiemann (1919), baritone Giangiacomo Guelfi (1924), tenor Bruno Prevedi (1928), and conductor Christopher Keene (1946)
Happy 86th birthday bass-baritone Domenico Trimarchi
Happy 71st birthday soprano Nadine Secunde
Happy 66th birthday tenor Thomas Randle
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.
