The gayest tweet of all time ushers in mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade‘s 73rd birthday.

Also birthday anniversaries of composers Ferdinando Paer (1771) and Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804); soprano Valeriya Vladimirovna Barsova (1892) and administrator and record producer Walter Legge (1906).

Happy 77th birthday conductor Edo De Waart!