On this day in 1893 Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel premiered in Weimar.

Born on this day librettist Ranieri de’Calzabigi (1714), composer Rafael Calleja (1874), baritone Karl Schmitt-Walter (1900), basses Josef Greindl (1912) and Alexander Filippovich Vedernikov (1927) and conductor Claudio Scimone (1934).