On this date in 1991 the world premiere of John Corigliano‘s The Ghosts of Versailles took place at the Met.

Born on this day composers Giuseppe Giordani (1751) and Walter Braunfels (1882), conductor Fritz Reiner (1888), soprano and Glyndebourne founder Audrey Mildmay (1900), soprano Dusolina Giannini (1902) and baritone Sanford Sylvan (1953).