Birthday anniversaries of composer Oscar Straus (1870), tenor Fernand Ansseau (1890), soprano Gina Cigna (1900), conductors Julius Rudel (1921), Sarah Caldwell (1924) and Lorin Maazel (1930), and bass-baritone Norman Treigle (1927).
“Opera is for a lifetime”
Happy 78th birthday soprano Kiri Te Kanawa.
On this day in 1964 Metropolitan Opera debuts of Leonard Bernstein, Franco Zeffirelli and Luigi Alva in a new production of Verdi’s Falstaff.On this day in 1831 Vincenzo Bellini’s La sonnambula premiered in Milan.
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