Happy 79th birthday bass Samuel Ramey.

Birthday anniversaries of mezzo-soprano Sabine Kalter (1890). librettist Myfanwy Piper (1911), soprano Clara Petrella (1914), baritone Anselmo Colzani (1918). soprano Hanne-Lore Kuhse and baritone Dmytro Hnatyuk (both in 1925) and composer Robert Ashley (1930).

Happy 91st birthday contralto Elizabeth Bainbridge.

Happy 80th birthday tenor Nicola Martinucci.

Happy 52nd birthday mezzo-soprano Daniela Barcellona.