httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ILjHSBBSK4

Happy 87th 88th birthday mezzo-soprano Marilyb Horne.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua6VdPKWvW4

Birthday anniversary of soprano Pilar Lorengar (1928).

Happy centenary of the birth of heldentenor Jean Cox.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9qN3URZBAs

On January 15:

On this day in 1958 Samuel Barber‘s Vanessa had its world premiere at the Met.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJm-fWr-3Wk

On this day in 1942 conductor Sir Thomas Beecham made his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting a double bill of Phoebus and Pan (Bach’s Cantata Der Streit) and Rinsky-Korsakovs Coq d’Or.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKAd_wS5kK8