Happy 52nd birthday to mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova. 

On this day in 1791 Cherubini’s Lodoïska premiered in Paris.

Birthday anniversaries of composer Giovanni Bononcini (1670), mezzo-soprano and composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821), conductor Kurt Masur (1927) and baritone Yury Mazurok (1931).

Happy birthday to conductor Carlo Franci (91) and composer Tobias Picker (63).

And happy birthday to diva Othalie Graham!