On this day in 1959 Alban Berg‘s Wozzeck had its Metropolitan Opera premiere.

Birthday anniversaries of composers William Shield (1748), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887) and Anthony Hedges (1931), tenors Alessio De Paolis (1893) and Josip Gostic (1900), and sopranos Gitta Alpar (1903) and Sylvia Stahlman (1929).