httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHgJ8MCXKWk
On this day in 1920 the first performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin was presented at the Met (Claudia Muzio, Giuseppe de Luca and Giovanni Martinelli singing in Italian.)
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-loEPL71yOM
On this day in 2011 the first Metropolitan Opera performance of Rossini’s Le Comte Ory.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4EZZLLA1UU
Birthday anniversaries of soprano Maria Malibran (1808), bass Fritz Ollendorf (1912), sopranos Luisa Bosabalian (1936) and Christiane Eda-Pierre (1932), director and designer Herbert Wernicke (1946).
