Happy 57th birthday soprano Natalie Dessay.

On this day in 1774 Christoph Wilibald von Gluck‘s Iphigenia in Aulis premiered in Paris.

On this day in 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel opened on Broadway

Birthday anniversaries of composer Germaine Tailleferre (1892), tenor Walter Widdop (1892) conductor Joseph Keilberth (1908) and mezzo-soprano Hertha Topper (1924).

Happy 84th birthday tenor Kenneth Riegel. Happy 56th birthday soprano Veronique Gens. Happy 55th birthday soprano Barbara Frittoli.

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