On this day in 1945 Britten’s Peter Grimes premiered at Sadler Wells Theatre in London.

Birthday anniversaries of conductor George Szell (1897); soprano Margaret Ritchie (1903); tenor Mario Filippeschi (1907) conductor, director and teacher Boris Goldovsky (1908); soprano Margherita Carosio (1908); set designer Gunther Schneider-Siemssen (1926) and tenor Andrea Velis (1927).