Speaking of ultimate masculinity, happy 38th birthday to tenor Michael Fabiano.

Happy 75th birthday soprano Felicity Lott.

Born on this day in 1930 soprano Heather Harper.

Birthday anniversaries of composer and arranger Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829), bass Mihaly Szekely (1901), mezzo-soprano Maria von Ilosvay (1917), tenor Carlo Cossutta (1932) and conductor Elio Boncompagni (1933).