On this day in 1977 tenor Guy Chauvet made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Samson.

Short-lived Metropolitan Opera careers – on this day Metropolitan opera debuts of:

Soprano Radmila Bakocevic as Cio Cio San (1968) (8 performances)
Soprano Arlene Saunders as Eva (3 performances, only role)
Tenor Jean Cox as Walther (8 performances, only role)
Gunther Leib as Beckmesser in Der Meistersinger (1976) (6 performances, only role)