On this day in 1979 mezzo Agnes Baltsa made her Met debut as Octavian.

Born on this day in 1930 Rosanna Carteri.

Birthday anniversaries of playwright Carlo Gozzi (1720), poet Heinrich Heine (1797), soprano Iva Pacetti (1898), conductor Jonel Perlea (1900), tenor Gosta Winbergh (1943) and baritone George Fortune (1931).

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