David Fox and Cameron Kelsall discuss this revival.

On this day in 1724 Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto premiered in London.

On this day in 1816 Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia had its disastrous premiere in Rome

Birthday anniversaries of director and administrator Carl Ebert (1887) sopranos Nadine Conner (1913) and Margareta Hallin (1931) and tenor Giorgio Merighi (1939).