Happy 77th birthday bass Paul Plishka.

Happy 87th birthday opera director Tito Capobianco.

On this day in 1850 Wagner’s Lohengrin premiered at the Staatskapelle Weimar.

Birthday anniversaries of composer Umberto Giordano (1867), conductors Karl Böhm (1894), Berislav Klobucar (1924) and István Kertész (1929), soprano Irene Jessner (1901), tenor Richard Tucker (1913) baritone Nicolae Herlea (1927), bass-baritone John Shirley-Quirk and soprano Cristina Deutekom (both 1931), and mezzo-soprano Lucia Valentini-Terrani (1948)