Happy 66th birthday mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore
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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.
Born on this day in 1819 composer Jacques Offenbach
Happy 88th birthday soprano Marisa Galvany
Happy 81st birthday soprano Eva Marton
Born on this day in 1882 composer Igor Stravinsky
Born on this day in 1952 tenor Jerry Hadley
Born on this day in 1843 composer Edvard Grieg
Happy 58th birthday soprano Eva Lind
On this day in 1855 Verdi‘s Les vêpres siciliennes premiered in Paris
On this day in 1917 Hans Pfitzner‘s Palestrina premiered in Munich
Born on this day in 1864 composer Richard Strauss Born on this day in 1913 mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens Born on this day in 1926 composer Carlisle Floyd Happy 82nd birthday soprano Marina Krilovici
Born on this day in 1922 entertainer Judy Garland
Happy 85th birthday soprano Ileana Cotrubas
Born on this day in 1810 composer Robert Schumann
Happy 61st birthday tenor Roberto Alagna
Happy 85th birthday tenor Giacomo Aragall
Happy 59th birthday soprano Sandrine Piau
Happy 58th birthday mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli
Happy 59th birthday baritone Peter Mattei
Happy 75th birthday tenor Neil Shicoff
Happy 79th birthday mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade
Born on this day in 1931 mezzo-soprano/soprano Shirley Verrett
Born on this day in 1920 bass-baritone George London
On this day in 1913 Igor Stravinsky‘s Le Sacre du printemps premiered in Paris; a riot ensued
