Happy 79th birthday soprano Eva Marton.

On this day in 1821 Weber’s Der Freischütz premiered in Berlin.

Birthday anniversaries of composer Richard Heuberger (1850), librettist Maurice Ordonneau (1854), composer and conductor Manuel Rosenthal (1904), composer and lyricist Sammy Cahn (1913), tenor Robert Ilosfalvy (1927) and conductor Hans Vonk (1942).