On this day in 1964 1963 the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night was a new Nathaniel Merrill production of Aida.

On this day in 1961 Frank Loesser’s musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opened on Broadway.

Happy 68th birthday composer Kaija Saariaho.

Happy birthday to indefatigable parterre box scribe Chris Corwin.

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