On This Day

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Born on this day in 1962 baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

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On this day in 1972 conductor Henry Lewis made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting La Bohème on what was his 40th birthday.

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Birthday anniversaries of writers Oscar Wilde (1854) and Eugene O’Neill (1888).

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