Happy 72nd birthday bass Ferruccio Furlanetto.

On this day in 1946 Irving Berlin‘s Annie Get Your Gun opened on Broadway.

Birthday anniversaries of tenors Richard Tauber (1891) and Jan Kiepura (1902); conductors Felix Prohaska (1912) and Otmar Suitner (1922).

Happy birthday to parterre box mainstay Dawn Fatale aka Richard Lynn.