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

And practically everyone you ever heard of has a birthday today, including bass Paul Plishka, who is 79.

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, soprano Cristina Deutekom and opera director Tito Capobianco (all in 1931) and mezzo-soprano Lucia Valentini-Terrani (1948)

Happy 72nd birthday conductor Gustav Kuhn.