Born on this day in 1946 soprano Edita Gruberova, performing music for the holiday . . .
Born on this day librettist Ranieri de’Calzabigi (1714), composer Rafael Calleja (1874), baritone Karl Schmitt-Walter (1900), basses Josef Greindl (1912 and Alexander Filippovich Vedernikov (1927), and conductor Claudio Scimone (1934)
Happy 67th birthday tenor Frank Lopardo
Happy 65th birthday soprano Tiziana Fabbricini
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.
Celebrate love in all its guises with tender ballads, amorous duets, cheeky verses, and bawdy drinking songs plus food, cocktails and wine.
