On this day in 1961 the historic Metropolitan Opera debuts of Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli in Verdi’s Il trovatore.

Happy 72nd birthday dancer and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov.

Birthday anniversary of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756), Edouard Lalo (1823) and Jerome Kern (1885);  baritone Hans Duhan (1890); conductor Joseph Rosenstock (1895) and soprano Ursula Schröder-Feinen (1936).

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