Happy 76th birthday soprano Kiri te Kanawa.

On this day in 1831 Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula premiered in Milan

Birthday anniversaries of composer Oscar Straus (1870); soprano Gina Cigna (1900); conductors Julius Rudel (1921); Sarah Caldwell (1924) and Lorin Maazel (1930); and bass-baritone Norman Treigle (1927).

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