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Happy 79th birthday bass Paul Plishka.

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

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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).