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.
Born on this day in 1907 soprano Jarmila Novotná.
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Born on this day in 1894 soprano Elisabeth Rethberg.
Happy 65th birthday baritone Alessandro Corbelli.
Born on this day in 1918 mezzo-soprano Blanche Thebom (some sources say 1915.)
Happy 46th birthday soprano Anna Netrebko.
Born on this day in 1925 actress singer and Leonie Rysanek doppelgänger Dorothy Loudon.
On this day 51 years ago the new Metropolitan Opera House opened in Lincoln Center.
Happy 72nd birthday soprano Jessye Norman.
On this day 1985 The Golden Girls debuted on NBC.
Born on this day in 1874 composer Arnold Schoenberg.
Born on this day in 1938 mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos.
On this day in 1914 composer W. C. Handy published “St. Louis Blues.”
Born on this day in 1898 actress Bessie Love.
On this day in 1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, was crowned “Queen of Scots.”
On this day in 1953 Carnival in Flanders (starring Dolores Gray) opened at The New Century Theater, to run six performances.
Happy 52nd birthday soprano Angela Gheorghiu.
Happy 70th birthday actress Jane Curtin.
Happy 57th birthday soprano Karita Mattila.
Happy Labor/Labour Day US and Canadian Paterrians!
Born on this day in 1910 soprano, television personality and arts advocate Kitty Carlisle.
On this day in 44 BC Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt declared her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
>Happy 78th birthday actress and comedian Lily Tomlin.
Born on this day in 1912 tenor/baritone Ramón Vinay.
Born on this day in 1898 actress Shirley Booth.
