On this day, premiere performance anniversaries of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte (1790), Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia (1833), Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (1911) and Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites (1957). 

On this day in 1955 conductor Rudolf Kempe made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Tannhäuser. Final Met performance a Rosenkavalier only one year later.